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Robotics
Computer Science students have the opportunity to work with robots at all levels of their educational experience. The Department's robot pool expands with student interest. It currently includes
- The popular Lego Mindstorms NXT robot kits (sixteen kits), supporting a wide variety of wheeled and legged robot projects
- The more advanced, pre-assembled Khepera II platform (three robots and two grippers), supporting more complex research experiments
- Two iRobot Create robots, equipped with our laptop-based visual client/server camera system
- Four AR.Drone flying robots (debuted at the 2010 Spring Term Fair)
- An Aeroquad drone built around the Arduino microcontroller, for advanced sensing / navigation projects.
- A Surveyor SRV-1 Blackin WiFi camera with pan-tilt servo control.
An exciting new feature of these robots is the ability to control them over WiFi from mobile smartphone platforms like the iPhone (iPad / iPod Touch) . Our students use robots in a growing variety of contexts, including freshman seminars, elective courses for the major, and honors thesis and R.E. Lee scholarship projects.