516 ELE / CS 400 Fall 2008 Student Presentation There are three options for this assignment: 1) A student can give a 15 minute talk on a special topic in the field of robotics. 2) A team of two students can give a joint 25 min talk. Each student should give at least 10 minutes of the presentation. 3) A group of up to 4 students can work together to make an interesting piece of hardware. The group will then present their work to the class. I will be happy to help on any hardware development. The hardware need not be original. A suggestion for this would be to set up our robot to use the Ultrasonic Range Finder that we have. Each talk should be a Power Point type presentation. The first page should be the title page and have the name of the presenters and the title of the talk. The last page should be the references. I suggest about 7 to 9 pages (not including title and references) for a fifteen minute talk. In the past, students have included downloaded movies. These are lots of fun to watch, however, please try to check out how to do them on the computer in the room. Sometimes there can be compatibility issues that will take time to correct. The movies are only part of the talk, not the whole thing. the After presentation, I will need a copy of your presentation. Suggestions for topics include: Interesting Robots There are many robots that perform interesting tasks. A detailed report on one of these would be good. NASA has a number of robots under development as do many other organizations. Hardware An in depth report on a particular piece of hardware could make a good topic. Contests There are numerous contests for robots. A discussion of a particular contest would be enlightening Robot Teams Robots cooperating together to accomplish a specific mission. Possible Sources: Carnegie Mellon This university has an excellent robotics program. They have produced many different types of robots. MIT - Rodney Broo...