Random Hall Robotics Seminar: Weekly Lectures
Each Friday we will present a lecture/demo/guest speaker on some interesting engineering topic. Some of the lectures will
relate directly to the projects we are working on, while others will
just cover topics we think are interesting and useful.
tentative list:
- Sensors + Actuators and Printer Disassembly
- Abstraction, Writing control psuedocode for the printers
- Discussing examples of Good Design and Bad Design
- Feedback and Control Systems
- Mechanical Transmissions
- Control and Programming Case Study: The wall-following car
- Lego gear and geartrain physics
- Mechanisms
- Methods of Manufacturing and Mass Production
- Estimation and Getting a Feel for Measurements
- The one-day Electronics class
- Artificial Intelligence and Subsumption Architecture