R17-U2 · usually age 17 · Autonomy Innovators
Build and Simulate
Can a simulation inform a physical design?
Outline: sessions not yet written
Build: Simulated robot model
- Test and debug
- Decide
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
Modular robot software
Split a robot program into parts that pass messages.
Built in R17-U1 Robotics Software Systems
Simulation limits
Say what a simulation leaves out compared with the real robot.
Built in R13-U4 Rescue Rover Mission
Builds, and what it is the input for
Simulation to design
Use a simulation to inform a physical design, and document the gap.
Input for R17-U4 Community Robotics Capstone
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
- simulation assumptions · frames · sensing · navigation
- Evidence of learning
- Document simulator-vs-reality differences.