CS 453: Robotics & 3D Printing

TR 11:30am - 1pm, Fall 2023 - Dr. Lawlor

In Duckering 535 or on Zoom: https://alaska.zoom.us/j/9074747678  (see Zoom in a Lawlor class)

My office hours (1-3pm MWF) use the same Zoom link.

Announcements

• Course grades are on NetRun's grading area for your review.  These will become final late Tuesday, December 19, so if you see any issues please let me know before then!
• Project requirements are up!  

• Your final project writeup is due Tuesday, December 12 on Canvas. Turn in your CAD, any code, and a few pictures formatted like a short technical blog post (accessible to me by URL).  
• Brief comments on your project presentations are on NetRun's grading area
• Project presentations started Thursday, November 30 (sign up for a presentation timeslot here!). Ten minute in-class talk about progress made, lessons learned, what worked, and what didn't.
• Critical design reviews were in class Thursday, October 26.

• HW1 on print-in-place joints. Be ready to show your printed model during class on Tuesday, September 26.  Upload your CAD to Canvas by midnight that day.

• Brief comments on your CAD are on NetRun's grading area (sign up or reset your NetRun password here with your official @alaska.edu email)

• HW0 on OpenSCAD modeling and printing:

• 2D print a ruler to measure real physical objects.
• Bring your useful part to class on Thursday, September 7 to show off.
• Turn in your OpenSCAD source code on Canvas by midnight Thursday, September 7.

Reference info

• 12/12 from 1-3pm: Final exam via synchronous distance (like the midterm).

• 12/07: Course review
• 12/05: Project presentations (see above)

• 11/30: Project presentations start (see above), and End-To-End robot design exercise
• 11/28: Robot Mobility

• 11/23: Thanksgiving, no class
• 11/21: Robot grippers & tool couplers & robot emotions

• 11/16: Hierarchical task planning (editable!)
• 11/14: How robots can build and use maps for path planning

• 11/09: Robot coordinate systems, such as for robot navigation
• 11/07: Depth cameras

• 11/02: Computer vision markers with aruco
• 10/31: OpenCV for computer vision: edge detection and object recognition (and why computer vision is hard)

• 10/26: Project critical design reviews
• 10/24: Computer vision and OpenCV introduction

• 10/19: Multi-sensor communication
• 10/17: Robot wiring for sensors like MPU-6050 IMU

• 10/12: Your project topics, and Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) feedback control
• The midterm exam was Tuesday, October 10 at 11:30-1pm.  (Review summary)

• 10/05: Extruder / Hotend designs
• 10/03: Motion planning for printers and robots

• 09/28: Geared arm demo (demo_arm_v3.scad and gearbox)
• 09/26: Your HW1 demos, Configuration Space and motion planning intro

• 09/21: Direct 3D printer control via gcode (for various 3D printer topologies)
• 09/19: Motor and controller types

• 09/14: Hands-on robot leg / 3D printer actuator design (demo_arm_v1.scad)
• 09/12: Linkages and Joints via bearings / bushings

• 09/07: Gears in OpenSCAD
• 09/05: Strong parts, and why parts break

• 08/31: OpenSCAD for parametric 3D part design
• 08/29: High-level overview of Robotics & 3D Printing, and a bunch of examples

• Know of some cool robotics or 3D printing projects?  Add to the "Neat Robotics & 3D Printing Stuff" page!

• Class recordings are in the video index (UA login required for your privacy)
• The course syllabus has grading info, my office hours, and other good stuff.

(Why is this a Google Doc?  To make it easy for me to update, and so you can see my updates in real time!)