A project-based program to learn the fundamentals of robotics.
Our weeklong Robotics Engineering course will teach you the fundamentals of robotics, including practical electronics, mechanical design, and microcontroller programming. Along the way, you'll build problem-solving skills, advance critical thinking, and broaden your creative and innovative reasoning.
You will learn to design robot motions, prototype them, and integrate in autonomous systems.
Topics include electronic circuits, linkage mechanisms, sensing, actuation, and reasoning with servos, DC motors, ultrasonic sensors, motion control over Bluetooth using mobile devices, and Arduino programming.
This curriculum is an abridged version of Freshman Design Innovation class offered at Stony Brook University.
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Experiential Learning
This program combines lectures and immersive hands-on activities. During the course of the week, we'll cover the following topics:
- Locomotion: Learn to design single and multi-degree-of-freedom walking and rolling robots
- Sensing: Integrate Ultrasonic and PIR sensors,
- Actuation: Learn to program servos and DC motors using a motor controller
- Reasoning: Introduce Arduino (C++ simplified) programming
- Remote Control: Learn to use a Bluetooth mobile app to control robot behavior.
Instructor
Anurag Purwar, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Computer-Aided Design and Innovation Lab
Dr. Anurag Purwar's research interests are in bringing together rigid body kinematics and machine learning for design of mechanisms and robots. He has published 82 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers and his research has been funded by National Science Foundation (NSF), NY-state SPIR, NY-state Center for Biotechnology, Sensor-CAT, SUNY Research Foundation, industry, Stony Brook University, and SUNY Office of Provost.
He is the recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching by Stony Brook University and the winner of the 2018 FACT2 award for Excellence in Instruction given to one professor from the entire SUNY system. He also received the 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Mid-Atlantic Division.
