Engineering Technology (Robotics) Model
Units:
- Telecommunications Systems
- Theory, Measurement, Control, and Applications of Electrical Energy
- Force, Work, Rate, Power, Energy, and Resistance
- Design Processes and Solving Analysis and Design Problems
- Industrial Engineering Processes
- Physics Fundamental to Engineering Technology
- Computer Systems and How to Solve Computer-Related Problems
- Fundamental Automation Modules and Preprogrammed Tasks
- Fundamentals of Systems and Products
- Effective Use of Engineering Technology Equipment
- FIRST Robotics Power Distribution and Bench Test
- Lesson: 1 Nomenclature for FRC Control system, Battery, and Motors
- Lesson 2: Wiring the FRC control system, battery and motors
- Lesson 3:connecting the "dots" between completed power distribution battery and motors board and diagram
- Lesson 4: Bench Test: motor torque and RPM
- Lesson 5: The Voltmeter
- Lesson 6: The Ammeter
- Lesson 7: Ohm's Law and the Power Triangle
- Lesson 8: Battery Charging
- Projects-Beginning
- Projects-Advanced
- Introduction to Robotics
- Robot Terms and Definitions
- Robot Parts
- Introduction to Gears
- Selecting Gears for VEX robots
- Robot Race
- Discussion Based on Brainstorming
- Gear Ratios
- Gear Calculation
- Student Design/Problem Solving
- Students Build a VEX Robot.
- Getting to Know the NXT Sensors
- Programming Tasks on the NXT Block
- History of Robotics
- VEX Encoders
- Configuring Sensors with the NXT-G Programming Software
Tags
Activity Industry Sector
Engineering & Design
Activity Originally Created By:
Jack Gillespie
Students Build a VEX Robot.
Part of Lesson Plan: Selecting Gears for VEX robots
Activity Overview / Details
Students will build a VEX robot based on the criteria they have decided on as a result of their engineering calculations. One set of VEX robots will needed for each team of students.
