Robotics
Description
Students now bring programming, electronics, sensing, motion, and mechanical construction together to enter the world of Robotics.
Instead of simply operating ready-made robots, students learn how robots are built from the inside out.
They explore every major part of a robotic system, including the Controller, Motor Drivers, Motors, Sensors, Power System, electronic connections, and mechanical structure.
Students build their robots step by step and wire the electronic systems themselves, developing a deeper understanding of how software decisions become physical movement.
Through increasingly challenging robots, students explore Robot Motion, Navigation, Path Planning, Obstacle Avoidance, Line Following, Remote Control, and Autonomous Behavior.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Understand the basic architecture of a robotic system.
- Identify the Controller, Sensors, Actuators, Power System, and Mechanical Structure of a robot.
- Understand how electronics, programming, and mechanics interact inside a robot.
- Build and wire a complete mobile robot.
- Connect Arduino to Motor Drivers and DC Motors.
- Control robot movement and direction.
- Program Forward, Backward, Left, Right, and Stop movements.
- Understand basic Differential Drive behavior.
- Control robot speed and direction.
- Understand the concept of Robot Navigation.
- Plan simple movement paths.
- Develop a Path Planning Robot.
- Use Sensors to detect obstacles.
- Program autonomous Obstacle Avoidance behavior.
- Understand basic Line Detection.
- Build and tune a Line Follower Robot.
- Remotely control a robot through a Mobile Application.
- Compare Manual, Remote-Controlled, and Autonomous Robots.
- Design robots for specific tasks.
- Build a Forklift Robot.
- Build a Cleaner Robot.
- Test and troubleshoot complete robotic systems.
- Improve robot behavior through experimentation and iteration.
- Understand the basic autonomous loop of Sense → Decide → Move → Re-evaluate.
- Integrate Programming + Electronics + Sensors + Motion + Mechanics into one robotic system.