Please click the link below to see the video of the Robot 11/26/2019:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JJx1_9YQLrJULBhJuKaem8AhMgXnX5v4/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JJx1_9YQLrJULBhJuKaem8AhMgXnX5v4/view?usp=sharing
Innovation Project
Introduction:
Our Team is from Riverside Middle School in East Providence. East Providence is building a brand new high school soon. Hopefully the majority of the team will be attending the new high school in the near future. When our team learned about the City Shaper theme this year we got the idea to build a robot to help the community or more specifically to help students find their way around the soon to be built new high school.
The idea of having a robot help you find your way around in an unfamiliar building can be used to help people navigate anywhere at anytime. A broader idea is that robot helpers can make people more comfortable in the current age we live in where robots and humans live and work side by side. That is the broader idea.
With some research, and the help of our mentor, Joe, we created a prototype smaller than the original idea in order to demonstrate that our idea for the tour guide can be done. Some steps that we did included the first step, where we built a simple machine to test it for steering and avoiding obstacles. Next, we make sketches and came up with a scale model design for our robot. Then, we spent time building the body of the robot with a cardboard cylinder. Afterwards, we made a body by using a bubble, and ventilation coil for the base and arms. Finally we ordered, attached, and programmed the lights.
Our mentor taught us many things. Some things that we learned is how to connect all of there pieces, how to crimp and solder wires, how to adjust the switch settings, and how to download an Aduino code from a computer to program the robot.
Next Steps:
At the moment our bot is a prototype, the beginning stage but thinking ahead out next steps would be to program it to autonomously respond to a person or group coming to the school. We would want to program a floor plan to help the bot navigate to rooms in the school building like main offices, library, cafeteria and music room. Other features would be a touch screen sound board, more sensors and more coding.
Website:
The Website is about everything we have been doing on the robotics team. We used a Weebly, a free web program. Parts we have on the website is team members, robot game, project, resources, core values, sketches, and we even had a whole section about our mentor Joe. The last page of our website is a survey we made from Survey Monkey.
Our Team is from Riverside Middle School in East Providence. East Providence is building a brand new high school soon. Hopefully the majority of the team will be attending the new high school in the near future. When our team learned about the City Shaper theme this year we got the idea to build a robot to help the community or more specifically to help students find their way around the soon to be built new high school.
The idea of having a robot help you find your way around in an unfamiliar building can be used to help people navigate anywhere at anytime. A broader idea is that robot helpers can make people more comfortable in the current age we live in where robots and humans live and work side by side. That is the broader idea.
With some research, and the help of our mentor, Joe, we created a prototype smaller than the original idea in order to demonstrate that our idea for the tour guide can be done. Some steps that we did included the first step, where we built a simple machine to test it for steering and avoiding obstacles. Next, we make sketches and came up with a scale model design for our robot. Then, we spent time building the body of the robot with a cardboard cylinder. Afterwards, we made a body by using a bubble, and ventilation coil for the base and arms. Finally we ordered, attached, and programmed the lights.
Our mentor taught us many things. Some things that we learned is how to connect all of there pieces, how to crimp and solder wires, how to adjust the switch settings, and how to download an Aduino code from a computer to program the robot.
Next Steps:
At the moment our bot is a prototype, the beginning stage but thinking ahead out next steps would be to program it to autonomously respond to a person or group coming to the school. We would want to program a floor plan to help the bot navigate to rooms in the school building like main offices, library, cafeteria and music room. Other features would be a touch screen sound board, more sensors and more coding.
Website:
The Website is about everything we have been doing on the robotics team. We used a Weebly, a free web program. Parts we have on the website is team members, robot game, project, resources, core values, sketches, and we even had a whole section about our mentor Joe. The last page of our website is a survey we made from Survey Monkey.