Searching For The Ideal Machine: How Strategy Drives VEX IQ Robot Design - Couverture souple

Narayanan, Rohit Anant; Kang, Christopher Hyun-gu; Wei, Angela Mingjia; Wimmer, Gabriel James; Djorup, Michael Lawrence; Hudda, Aanya Advani

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1511511745 ISBN 13 : 9781511511742

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Searching For The Ideal Machine: How Strategy Drives VEX IQ Robot Design is a handbook that explores the relationship between strategy and engineering design in the field of competitive robotics. The book provides a methodology for finding success in competitive robotics. The process starts by determining the key functional requirements of a season’s game, and details and discusses a variety of machines and mechanisms that can satisfy such requirements, using the 2015 VEX IQ Highrise game as an illustrative example. These machines and mechanisms can be versatile (or general purpose) or specialized (or of limited purpose but with higher performance). The problem of building stable irregular stacks is discussed and solved in a mathematically rigorous way. Next the authors develop a taxonomy of robots, classifying the various common types of machines into a set of six robot “families" - pushbots, clawbots, harvesters, plowbots, gantries and (task-optimized) cherrypickers. The authors show how compliance of designs with game rules on robot sizing can be evaluated prior to construction using simple trigonometry. The book applies these principles to the 2015 VEX IQ Highrise game, developing a variety of strategies for transport, sorting and stacking of game objects. Next the authors show how these specialized strategies can be combined for improved competition performance using an evaluation schema that considers the maximum and likely score and the reliability of the machine to assess the suitability of each machine for solo and alliance telerobotics as well as autonomous robotics based upon its strengths in transport, sorting and stacking of game objects. After describing their favored solution to the exemplary problem, the authors provide a detailed methodology for extending such an approach to future competitions. Written in plain English for a middle school audience (both students and coaches), most of the book is accessible to elementary schoolers as well. Two sections of the book are mathematically sophisticated– particularly the sections on designing robots for rules compliance, and the mathematically rigorous solution to the problem of building stable irregular stacks. Elementary and middle robotics coaches may find this book useful to illustrate robotics concepts and help train their students in designing the optimal machine for their chosen strategy. The machines, mechanisms and assessment process described in this book will prove useful to future season robotics competitions.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Rohit Narayanan is a seventh grader who attends the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia. He is 13 years old. He has been interested in math, science and how things work since an early age. He has done five years of competitive robotics. He is a founding member of Team Reisenschein (with Angela and Christopher) - which won the Middle School Excellence Award at the VEX IQ World Championship in Anaheim, California. This is his fourth book with Angela. Last year, the team published A Tooth for a Tooth: A Vex IQ Gear Handbook to share their research on gear mathematics with the VEX communit. Apart from robotics, his interests include writing plays, theatre, traveling at home and abroad, keeping a journal of amusing school stories, mathematics and swimming. Christopher Kang is a sixth grader at the Potomac School. This is his third year of robotics and his second year of VEX IQ. He has been playing soccer since he was two. Other hobbies include piano, clarinet, math, reading, writing and building. He also enjoys CAD design and designing on SketchUp. Angela Wei is a seventh grader who attends the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia. She is 12 years old. She has lived in both America and China and is fluent in Chinese. This is her third year of robotics. She is interested in science, technology, art and literature. She has won awards in Calligraphy, Essay and Piano competitions. A budding social activist, she is moving to Cambodia this July with her family in search of new challenges. Michael Djorup is a seventh grader at the Potomac School. He plays the clarinet and the piano. At school, he is on the Baseball A team and the squash team. His favorite show is Shark Tank and his favorite classes are math and science. He is also learning how to program and fly a drone. Gabriel Wimmer is fourteen years old and an aspiring scientist. He is an eighth grader at Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia. Gabriel founded robotsNOW LLC, a nonprofit to help bring after-school robotics programs to grade schoolers. He resides in McLean, Virginia with his parents and three younger brothers. Aanya Hudda is a sixth grader at National Cathedral School in Washington DC. She is 11 years old. Aanya has been riding horses since she was five. Aanya enjoys traveling, and has been to all the continents except for Australia, Antarctica and Africa. Aanya currently resides in Vienna, Virginia with her mom, dad, and dog, Buddy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1511511745
• ISBN 13: 9781511511742
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg