Bryn Mawr College IPRE Kickoff Meeting Bryn Mawr College Doug Blank Software Development

Bryn Mawr College IPRE Software Connecting Curriculum and Hardware Software Design Overview Short term goals for Spring 2007 On to Hardware

Bryn Mawr College Educational Robotics No one has really ever done this before! “Using robots in CS1” is not the same thing as “using robots in service of teaching CS1” –CS education is primary goal –Robotics is the motivation A robot that is good for robotics is not necessarily a robot that is good for education, and verse vice-a

Bryn Mawr College Software Development Overview CS1 and CS2 components are just the tip of the iceberg These are just “gateway robots” to more sophisticated systems “Myro” designed to span the needs of teachers and students from introductory coursework to research robotics, and beyond; and create a smooth continuum Should be easy to do very interesting things

Bryn Mawr College Myro Layers Myro IronPython Myro C# MSR SDK Serial/Bluetooth Client Bluetooth Device Interface Personal Robot Microcontroller Server Serial/Bluetooth Client Bluetooth Device Interface

Bryn Mawr College Myro Layers Myro IronPython Myro C# MSR SDK Serial/Bluetooth Client Bluetooth Device Interface Scribbler Hardware BASIC STAMP Server Serial/Bluetooth Client Bluetooth Device Interface

Bryn Mawr College TekkotsuPlayer Myro Layers Myro IronPython Myro C# MSR SDK Serial/Bluetooth Client Bluetooth Device Interface Scribbler Hardware BASIC STAMP Server Serial/Bluetooth Client Bluetooth Device Interface

Bryn Mawr College TekkotsuPlayer Myro Layers IronPython Myro C# MSR SDK Serial/Bluetooth Client Bluetooth Device Interface Scribbler Hardware BASIC STAMP Server Serial/Bluetooth Client Bluetooth Device Interface C#Basic

Bryn Mawr College TekkotsuPlayer Myro Layers Myro C# MSR SDK Low-level Drivers IronPythonC#Basic

Bryn Mawr College Myro Layers, Spring 2007 Myro CPython Serial/Bluetooth Client Bluetooth Device Interface Scribbler Hardware BASIC STAMP Server Serial/Bluetooth Client Bluetooth Device Interface

Bryn Mawr College Myro, Spring 2007 POLL-mode; get sensor data when needed Some intelligence: no need to POLL again within a minimum time span Make the client/server communications robust

Bryn Mawr College Myro Interfaces Functions –left(), right(), forward(), move() Object-oriented –robot.left(), robot.right(), robot.forward(), robot.move()

Bryn Mawr College Myro Simulator in Python

Bryn Mawr College Myro code examples from myro import * initialize(“com5”) forward(.5) rotate(.8) stop() for command in [left, right, forward]: command(.7) stop()

Bryn Mawr College Myro code examples from myro import * robot = Scribbler(“/dev/ttyUSB0”) robot.move(.4,.1) for i in range(4): robot.forward(1) time.sleep(3) robot.stop() robot.left(.6) time.sleep(5) robot.stop()

Bryn Mawr College Myro Development C# coding standards Team Suite Foundation Server Bug tracking Web integration Code Analysis Unit Testing

Bryn Mawr College Hardware 1.Flip Camera 2.Whiteboard playpen