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How to start a high school robotics club? http://wfad08.org

May 20th, 2012

I wasn’t entirely sure if this was the most appropriate section to ask this, but I figured the majority of you might have had past experience with this. Basically, I’d like to create a robotics club at my high school. There currently isn’t one, and I feel it’s a club that every school should definitely have.

The only issue is that I, myself, don’t really have any experience with robotics. If the idea for the club is accepted, what would be the best way to ease into robotics but still make the club appealing to other students?

Thanks!

Go to www.usfirst.org. You will likely be able to find a local First Robotics team that can help get you started. We started a First tech challenge team at the local middle school by recruiting 4 high school kids from a neighboring Robotics team to act as advisers. Our club has grown from 4 members at the start of the year to 22. We raised money by charging a $50 activity fee and sponsored a dance. Our budget for this year is $2000. I wouldn’t worry too much about not having any robotics experience. You will be surprised at the hidden expertise in robotics other students will have. First Robotics also has tons of material, videos, training materials etc

Chris Jenkins




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What degree do I need to get into robotics? http://wfad08.org

May 20th, 2012

I want to have a career in robotics. What sort of degree or certification do I need to focus on? I’ve looked around and there isn’t many schools that offer a degree specific to robotics. What can I do to give me the highest chance to get into the robotics field? I did a little research and my best bet would be to get into electrical engineering?

I should also add that I want to get into the programming of robotic arms and such.

Some kind of engineering degree – mechanical or electronics, with heavy emphasis on programming. You might want to also take some classes in nanotechnology. Some colleges actually have a robotics engineering major.

The link below lists some robotics specialty programs.




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WHEA Robotics Expo! | West Hawaii Explorations Academy PCS

May 17th, 2012

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Robotics Meeting – all are welcome | Tuscan Tidings

May 17th, 2012

District-wide robotics meeting on Thursday, May 31, at 7PM at Columbia High School Cafeteria.

Students of all ages who are interested in robotics should attend the district wide meeting about the robotics program. The CHS robots will be in action and kids can try to drive them. Two robots putt golf balls!

There are three divisions of robotics teams in the district — elementary, middle school and high school. Students work together in their division to design a robot and have it accomplish tasks. As the students move to the high school, the requirements are stricter as to teamwork, responsibilities and, of course, time commitment. All district teams should bring their robots and projects to the meeting. We hope to have representatives from US FIRST, the robotics organization with thousands of teams including a number from our district. Robotics clubs can be organized at the meeting and existing clubs can recruit new members.

The District is on track to start a robotics course in the fall of 2013. It may be available as independent study by the spring of 2012-13 school year.

The CHS team has accomplished in its first 2 years: NJ State Champions (2011); 2nd place alliance, World Championships in St. Louis (2011), Pennsylvania State Champions (2012), semi-finalist in NJ and NY Metro NYC divisions (2012).

Parents, please encourage your children to be part of a dynamic program and be prepared for the world they will live where cars are robots, where manufacturing is done by robots, and where many routine tasks in their lifetimes will be done by robots.

Any questions, please contact Mr. Tumolillo.

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FANUC R-2000iB "Flying Robots" in Camshaft Machining Center — Courtesy of TranTek Automation

May 14th, 2012

Camshaft machining – www.fanucrobotics.com FANUC Robotics Authorized Integrator TranTek Automation Corporation designed this new automation concept for a series of camshaft machining centers that traditionally used separate linear motion gantry-style pick and place mechanisms and floor conveyors. This new 7th Axis Robotic design, which utilizes FANUC R-2000iB rail-mounted robots, reduces the amount of fixed automation equipment required, cuts four individual automation systems down to one, uses less energy, and frees up floor space while providing capital equipment flexibility. By integrating these top loader FANUC R-2000iB Material Handling "flying robots" on a overhead rail, separate fixed automation can be removed at each of the CNC machining centers. In the traditional configuration, each machining center had a linear gantry deliver camshafts to and from a conveyor on the shop floor. In this new design, overhead robots pick up and deliver parts from cell to cell. Each movement to the machining center includes removal of a finished part and delivery of a raw part. The traditional design also required hundreds of feet of fixed floor conveyors to feed the machining cells. The new configuration by TranTek eliminates the entire conveyor system, freeing up valuable floor space. With the conveyors removed, operators and quality control personnel can move freely around the machine centers. But one of the biggest benefits is capital equipment flexibility. The CNC machining <b>…</b>

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Robotics eBooks Collection – LimsWeb-Forum

May 14th, 2012

Robotics eBooks Collection
Size: 1.79 GB
Format : PDF

Content :

123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius
Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Building Robots – Gareth Branwyn
Active Visual Inference of Surface Shape – Roberto Cipolla
Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines – Hiroshi Kimura et al
Advances in Robot Kinematics – Jadran Lenarcic and Bernard Roth
Amphibionics Build Your Own Biologically Inspired Reptilian Robot – Karl Williams
An Introduction to MEMs Engineering – Nadim Maluf and Kirt Williams
Anatomy of a Rrobot – Charles M Bergren
Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for Engineers
Artificial Mind System – Kernel Memory Approach – Tetsuya Hoya
Autonomous Mobile Robots – Shuzhi Sam Ge & Frank L Lewis
Autonomous Robotic Systems – Anibal T. de Almeida and Oussama Khatib
Autonomous Robots – Modeling, Path Planning, and Control
Bio-MEMS Technologies and Applications – Wang and Soper
Biomimetics – Biologically Inspired Technologies – Yoseph Bar Cohen
Build a Remote Controlled Robot – David R Shircliff
Build A Remote-Controlled Robot
Build Your Own Combat Robot – Pete Miles
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Build_Your_Own_Combat_Robot
Cells and Robots – Milutinovic and Lima
CNC Robotics – Geoff Williams
Complex Robotic Systems – Pasquale Chiacchio & Stefano Chiaverini
Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics – Stan Gibilisco
Control of Intelligent Robotic Interfaces – Cristian Secchi
Control of Redundant Robot Manipulators – R.V. Patel and F. Shadpey
Control of Robot Manipulators in Joint Space – R. Kelly, V. Santibanez and A. Loria
Control of Single Wheel Robots – Yangsheng Xu & Yongsheng Ou
Control Problems in Robotics and Automation – B. Siciliano and K.P. Valavanis
CRC Press – Mechanical Engineering Handbook – Robotics
CRC Press – Opto-Mechatronic Systems Handbook
CRC Press – Robotics and Automation Handbook
CRC Press – The Mechatronics Handbook
Creating Cool MINDSTORMS NXT Robots
Designing Mobile Autonomous Robots – John Holland
Designing Sociable Robots – Cynthia L Breazeal
Dynamic Vision for Perception and Control of Motion – Ernst D. Dickmanns
Effective Computational Geometry for Curves & Surfaces – Boissonnat & Teillaud
Efficient Collision Detection for Animation and Robotics – Ming C Lin
Embedded Robotics – Thomas Braunl
Environment Learning for Indoor Mobile Robots – Andrade Cetto & Sanfeliu
Field and Service Robotics – Corke P. and Sukkarieh S.
Field and Service Robotics- Recent Advances – Yuta S. et al
Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems – Jorge Angeles
Fundamentals of Robotics Linking Perception to Action – Ming Xie
Grippers in Motion – the Fascination of Automated Handling Tasks – Wolf
Hacking Roomba – Tod E.Kurt
Handbook of Geometric Computing – Eduardo Bayro Corrochano
Handbook of Industrial Automation – Richard L. Shell and Ernest L. Hall
Handbook of Robotics – Springer
Industrial Robots Programming – J. Norberto Pires
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics I – Braz J
Innovations in Intelligent Machines 1 – Javaan Singh Chahl et al
Innovations in Robot Mobility and Control – Srikanta Patnaik et al
Intelligent Autonomous Robotics – A Robot Soccer Case Study – Peter Stone
Introduction to AI Robotics – Murphy R.R
Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots – Siegwart Nourbakhsh
Introduction to Robotics Mechanics and Control – J J Craig
Introductory Robotics – J M Selig
Introductory Robotics
LEGO MINDSTORMS – Robotics Invention System-2 Projects
LEGO MINDSTORMS – Building Robots
LEGO MINDSTORMS – Dark Side Robots Transports and Creatures
LEGO MINDSTORMS – The Unofficial Guide to Robots – Jonathan B. Knudsen
LEGO Mindstorms Masterpieces – Building and Programming Advanced Robots
Machine Learning and Robot Perception – Bruno Apolloni et al
Machine Vision – David Vernon
Mechanical_Engineering_Handbook_-_Robotics_-_CRC_Press
Mechanics of Microelectromechanical Systems – N.Lobontiu and E.Garcia
Mechantronics An Introduction – Robert H Bishop
Mechatronic Servo System Control – M. Nakamura S. Goto and N. Kyura
Mechatronic Systems – Georg Pelz
Mechatronics – A Preumont
Mechatronics for Safety, Security and Dependability in a New Era – Arai and Arai
Mechatronics for the Evil Genius
MEMS Advanced Materials and Fabrication Methods – Nat. Aca. Press
MEMS and Microstructures in Aerospace Applications – Robert Osiander et al
MEMS Mechanical Sensors – Stephen Beeby
Micro Electro Mechanical System Design – James J. Allen
Microengineering MEMs and Interfacing – Danny Banks
Micromechanical Photonics – H. Ukita
Microsensors, MEMS and Smart Devices – Gardner Varadhan and Awadelkarim
Mobile Robots Inspiration to Implementation – Flynn and Jones
Modern Robotics Building Versatile Macines – Harry Henderson
Moral machines
Motion Control Handbook
Multi-Agent_Robotic_Systems_(2001)_-_CRC_Press
Multi-Arm Cooperating Robots- Dynamics and Control – Zivanovic and Vukobratovic
Multi-Robot Systems From Swarms to Intelligent Automata – Parker et al
Nano- and Micro Eelectromechanical Systems – S.E. Lyshevski
Neural Preprocessing and Control of Reactive Walking Machines – Manoonpong
Neurotechnology for Biomimetic Robots – Joseph Ayers
PDA Robotics – Douglas H Williams
Practical and Experimental Robotics – Ferat Sahin & Pushkin Kachroo
Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming In Java
Principles and Applications of NanoMEMS Physics – Hector J. De Los Santos
Rapid Learning in Robotics – Jorg Walter
Recent Advances in Mechatronics – Ryszard Jabonski et al
ROBOT BUILDER’S BONANZA——v.useful for beginners and advanced robot builders
Robot Builder’s Cookbook – Build and Design Your Own Robots
Robot Builder’s Cookbook Build and Design Your Own Robots
Robot Builders Bonanza – Gordon Mccomb
Robot Builders Source Book – Gordon McComb
Robot Manipulator Control Theory and Practice – Frank L.Lewis
Robot Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Illustrated – Paul E Sandin
Robot Motion and Control – M Thoma & M Morari
Robot Motion Planning and Control – J.P. Laumond
Robot Vision – Stefan Florczyk
Robotics Demystified – Edwin Wise
Robotics, Designing the Mechanisms 2ed
Robots Androids and Animatrons – 12 Incredible Projects You Can Build
Robots Androids and Animatrons – John Lovine
Robot_Builder_Guide
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Scientific Methods in Mobile Robotics – Ulrich Nehmzow
Sensing Intelligence Motion – How Robots & Humans Move – Vladimir J. Lumelsky
Sensor Technology Handbook – By J. Wilson (Newnes – 2005) 703p – YYePG LotB
Sentry Gun FAQ
Sentry Gun
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Servo Magazine – 2007-02
Servo Magazine – 2007-03
Servo Magazine – 2007-04
Servo Magazine – 2007-05
Servo Magazine – 2007-06
Servo Magazine – 2007-07
Smart Material Systems and MEMS – Vijay K. Varadan
Socially Intel. Agents Creating Rels. with Comp. & Robots – Dautenhahn et al
Squeak Learn Programming with Robots – Stephane Ducasse
The Definitive Guide to Building Java Robots – Scott Preston
The MEMS Handbook (1st Ed) – M. Gad el Hak
The MEMS Handbook Introduction & Fundamentals (2nd Ed)
The MEMS Handbook MEMS Applications (2nd Ed)
The MEMS Handbook MEMS Design (2nd Ed)
The Robot Builder’s Bonanza, 2nd Ed.
The Ultimate Palm Robot – Kevin Mukhar and Dave Johnson
Underwater Robots – Gianluca Antonelli
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Vision And Action – The Control of Grasping – Goodale M.A.(Ed)
Visual Perception and Robotic Manipulation – Taylor & Kleeman
Welding Robots Technology System Issues and Applications – J Norberto Pires
Who Needs Emotions The Brain Meets the Robot – Fellous & Arbib

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New Member | Green Army Robotics

May 14th, 2012

Nora Ann Cole

Date of Initiation:  5/11/2012 6:47am

Weight:  8lbs 1oz.

 

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Saturday Night Fever Meets Robotics « Viral Video Palace

May 10th, 2012

Saturday Night Fever Meets RoboticsBoston Dynamics “Petman” robot is not only “Stayin’ Alive” to the classic Bee Gees song, he’s walking and doing pushups. If this is what the future looks like, then we’re totally fine with it. As long as it doesn’t ask us to touch it where the bathing suit covers.


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Willow Garage Announces New Open Source Robotics Foundation …

May 10th, 2012

For years now, many of the most interesting advancements in robotics have arrived via open source robot platforms and community contributions to them. Among open source robotics efforts, Willow Garage–a project that originated at Stanford University–may be the most famous and accomplished. Robots being developed within it run ROS (Robot Operating System) software, and are surprisingly capable. At least 25 institutions are developing robotics applications on Willow Garage’s open platform, and now, Willow garage has announced the launch of the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF). This is likely to be huge news for robot fans.

According to the OSRF announcement:

“The OSRF is an independent, non-profit organization founded by members of the global robotics community. Their mission is to support the development, distribution, and adoption of open source software for use in robotics research, education, and product development. In conjunction with the formation of the OSRF, the Board of Directors was also announced. The Board of Directors comprises a worldwide collection of educators, leaders and visionaries in the field of robotics.”

Among the luminaries on the OSRF board are:

- Wolfram Burgard, a professor at the University of Freiburg where he leads the Laboratory for Autonomous Intelligent Systems.

- Ryan Gariepy, the co-founder and CTO of Clearpath Robotics. Clearpath Robotics specializes in the design and manufacture of robust and reliable unmanned vehicle solutions for industrial R&D.

- Brian Gerkey, Director of Open Source Development at Willow Garage.

- Helen Greiner, co-founder of iRobot and currently CEO of CyPhyWorks.

- Sam Park, the executive vice president of Yujin Robot. At Yujin Robot he has directed the commercialization of educational and entertainment robots, elderly service robots and home cleaning robots.

That’s quite a distinguished board. The first initiative of the OSRF will be participating in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. The DARPA Robotics Challenge launches in October of this year and offers a $2 million prize “to whomever can help push the state-of-the-art in robotics beyond today’s capabilities in support of the DoD’s disaster recovery mission.”

“It’s always been the intention of Willow Garage to create an independent body that can take our initial work in open source robotics and see it grow beyond the confines of a single organization,”  said Steve Cousins, CEO of Willow Garage, in a statement. “The reality is that the popularity of open source robotics in general, and ROS specifically, has grown beyond our wildest expectations. Willow Garage will enthusiastically support the goals of the OSRF.” 

For much more coverage of open source robotics, see OStatic’s posts herehere, and here

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DARPA Robot Masters Stairs

May 7th, 2012

This video shows versions of DARPA and Boston Dynamics robots climbing stairs, walking on a treadmill and doing pushups. A modified platform resembling these robots is expected to be used as government-funded equipment (GFE) for performers in Tracks B and C of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (www.darpa.mil The GFE Platform is expected to have two arms, two legs, a torso and a head, and will be physically capable of performing all of the tasks required for the disaster response scenarios scheduled in the Challenge. However, despite the appearance of the robots in the video, the Challenge is decidedly not exclusive to humanoid robot solutions. Any designs are welcome provided they are compatible with shared human-robot environments, compatible with human tools, and compatible with human operators so that a human without expertise in robotics can give commands and confidently anticipate the response. It is DARPA’s position that achieving true innovation in robotics, and thus success in the Robotics Challenge, will require contributions from communities beyond traditional robotics developers. Hardware, software, modeling and gaming developers are sought to link with emergency response and various science communities to devise novel solutions that enable robots to respond to disasters according to the tasks laid out in DARPA’s announcement (go.usa.gov for the Challenge.

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