Design of Mobile Robot for use as a Teaching Platform and Autonomous Navigation and Object Avoidance
There is no end to the depth of learning possible In the field of robotics. However, we are many times limited by the methods we choose to teach ourselves and others. As a result, I looked at the current teaching platforms used, along with others available in the market, and found there was room for...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
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| description | There is no end to the depth of learning possible In the field of robotics. However, we are many times limited by the methods we choose to teach ourselves and others. As a result, I looked at the current teaching platforms used, along with others available in the market, and found there was room for something more suitable for my coursework taken so far.
This thesis covers the design and implementation of a new autonomous mobile robot teaching platform, which has now been adopted by MIT’s Introduction to Robotics class. This involves the design requirements gathered from looking at what both students and instructors needed to improve their current platform for teaching many of the principles of robotics. The end result has been a successful, open-source mobile robot that is capable of a plethora of autonomous tasks and a high level of modularity—useful for applications in whatever designs are produced by students for the ever-changing term projects. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1518342023-08-24T03:56:09Z Design of Mobile Robot for use as a Teaching Platform and Autonomous Navigation and Object Avoidance Thompson, Kyle Chin, Harrison Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering There is no end to the depth of learning possible In the field of robotics. However, we are many times limited by the methods we choose to teach ourselves and others. As a result, I looked at the current teaching platforms used, along with others available in the market, and found there was room for something more suitable for my coursework taken so far. This thesis covers the design and implementation of a new autonomous mobile robot teaching platform, which has now been adopted by MIT’s Introduction to Robotics class. This involves the design requirements gathered from looking at what both students and instructors needed to improve their current platform for teaching many of the principles of robotics. The end result has been a successful, open-source mobile robot that is capable of a plethora of autonomous tasks and a high level of modularity—useful for applications in whatever designs are produced by students for the ever-changing term projects. S.B. 2023-08-23T16:12:21Z 2023-08-23T16:12:21Z 2023-06 2023-07-18T16:17:29.169Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151834 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Copyright retained by author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Thompson, Kyle Design of Mobile Robot for use as a Teaching Platform and Autonomous Navigation and Object Avoidance |
| title | Design of Mobile Robot for use as a Teaching Platform and Autonomous Navigation and Object Avoidance |
| title_full | Design of Mobile Robot for use as a Teaching Platform and Autonomous Navigation and Object Avoidance |
| title_fullStr | Design of Mobile Robot for use as a Teaching Platform and Autonomous Navigation and Object Avoidance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design of Mobile Robot for use as a Teaching Platform and Autonomous Navigation and Object Avoidance |
| title_short | Design of Mobile Robot for use as a Teaching Platform and Autonomous Navigation and Object Avoidance |
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