R15-U4 · usually age 15 · Autonomy Innovators
Pick and Place
Can an arm repeat a useful task?
Outline: sessions not yet written
Build: Safe low-payload pick-and-place arm
- Decide
- Act
- Test and debug
Who it is for
Age is a starting point, never a limit. A learner who can show what this unit starts from can begin here at any age.
- How they learn
- By designing systems in C++ or Python, using simulation as preparation, and proving behaviour with measured trials.
- The adult's role
- An adult reviews safety, tools and higher-risk subsystems.
- Session
- 90–120 minutes
- Hardware
- Arduino, Raspberry Pi Pico, ESP32 or a Raspberry Pi computer. Many of these boards are 3.3 V: use level shifting for 5 V parts. Advance only after driver and power competency.
Starts from
Reach and kinematics
Relate joint angles to where an arm can reach.
Built in R15-U3 Coordinates and Reach
States
Describe and program behaviour as states, with a state diagram.
Built in R13-U3 Autonomous Behaviour
Repeatable trials
Run several varied trials before calling something reliable.
Built in R10-U4 Automated Gate Challenge
Builds, and what it is the input for
Automation
Automate a repeated physical task and measure its reliability.
Input for R16-U4 Sort for a Purpose
In the studio today
No studio lab or activity for this unit yet.
Outline: sessions not yet written
This unit is an outline: a title, a question and an intended prototype. Its sessions, materials and adult guide are not written yet.
- Ideas
- sequencing · positioning · reliability
- Evidence of learning
- Complete repeated trials with error records.