Somerset Berkley Regional High School

Ethan McGuinness, Matthew Cabral, Jake

Klaver
powerpoint Robotics Engineering with LabView

1. Engineering Design
Central Concepts: Engineering design involves practical problem
solving, research, development, and invention/innovation, and requires
designing, drawing, building, testing, and redesigning. Students should
demonstrate the ability to use the engineering design process to solve a
problem or meet a challenge.

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1.1 Identify and explain the steps of the engineering design process: identify the
problem, research the problem, develop possible solutions, select the best possible
solution(s), construct prototypes and/or models, test and evaluate, communicate the
solutions, and redesign.
Identify the
problem
Research the
Redesign
problem

Communicate
the
solutions

Test and
evaluate

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Develop
solutions

Construct a
prototype

Select the best

solution

Step 1
Identify the
problem

The project was to build any robot that

we wanted with as much time that we
needed. We also had to make the
robot actually work. We as a group
had built a motorcycle robot that was
able to move with light and motion
sensors.
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Step 2
Research the
problem
Explore other options via the internet
Student: List the internet sites that were
helpful.
Site 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=OAukogqS_EU
Site 2_____________________
Site 3 _____________________

What did you learn from your research?

A from this video we learned how to
build the robot and get the idea on how
to build it.
B.
C ______________________
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Step 3
Develop solutions
BRAINSTORM
COLLABORATION

Student : Share your ideas with your design team. List your ideas below.
1.Some ideas about the robot that we had problems with was the gearing and able
to make the robot move in the direction that we wanted it to move in.
2. make sure that what you are building you know how to gear it correctly and
practice with the robot to make sure that the robot actually works.
3.make sure that you have enough pieces for the robot so that you don't run out.
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4._____________________________________
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Step 4
Select the best
Possible solution(s)

Design idea #1
Pro: The pro of the robot was that we had never built a robot like
that before and that we stepped a new level that we had not
before and that gave us a challenge and it was good for us.
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
Con: We over estimated our ability to make the robot we had a lot
of trouble making this robot because we did not have the right
pieces to actually build the robot. The gears were a big problem
they just didnt want to work so we had to make some major
modifications to the robot.
____________________________________________________
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Design idea #2
Pro: We did not really need to make a new idea we stuck with
what we had.
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____________________________________________________
Con: we had to make modifications.
____________________________________________________
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Design idea #3
Pro:
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Con:
____________________________________________________
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Step 5
Construct a prototype

Student: Build a robot with your nxt lego kit

Use the next slide(s) for your digital pictures of your prototypes.
If the robot fails the design must be modified and retested.

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Step 6 Test and evaluate

If the robot fails the design must be modified and retested.
st
*
picture
of
your
1
prototype*
This prototype sadly did not work it some
problems such as it only worked some of
the time.

Does it work?

Ye
s
Stop

No
Modify the robot

retest

Example

Step 6 Test and evaluate

If the robot fails the design must be modified and retested.
* picture of your 2nd prototype*
This prototype did work better than the
other one but this one did have its
problems but it works well enough to say
that it works.

Does it work?

Ye
s
Stop

No
Modify the robot
retest

Example

Step 6 Test and evaluate

If the robot fails the design must be modified and retested.
* picture of your 3rd prototype*

Does it work?

Ye
s
Stop

No
Modify the robot

retest

Example

Step 7
Communicate the solution(s)

Provide the YouTube link of your video that shows

how your robot meets the challenge.
YouTube video link : https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=E0QSMIUce_c

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Step 8
Redesign

If you could do this over again what would you do differently?

I would get a different robot idea. Although that this robot is a
cool idea it did not live up to potential that we wanted and that
was not cool.

What did you learn? We learned how to use light sensors

and motion sensors with our robot. also how to use some
gears that we didnt before.
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