16-311 Labs

The following links will take you to information on each of the labs. Note that these pages will be updated throughout the semester.

Read the Philosophy behind the labs to find out more about the labs in general.

A little basic RobotC documentation for your convenience.

TA lab hours TBD

NOTE: You can view labs before they are assigned, but they are subject to change and may have incorrect dates, etc.
Name
Date Assigned
Date Due
Lead TAs
Lab 1 : Rube Goldberg Machines Tues 1/17 Wed 1/25 Dennis Liang
James Wahawisan
Lab 2 : Vision Tues 1/24 Tue 1/31 Rui Cai
Jason Lin
Lab 3 : Mobile Base Wed 2/1 Tue 2/7 Samantha Tan
Rui Cai
Lab 4 : Trajectory Following Wed 2/8 Tue 2/14 Soohyun Jang
Melvin Rayappa
James Wahawisan
Lab 5 : Path Planning Wed 2/15 Wed 2/22 Emily Griffen
Jason Lin
Jessica Tiu
Lab 6 : Sensor Based Planning Wed 2/22 Tue 2/28 Nate Barshay
Melissa Wagner
Lab 7 : Remote Control (USAR) Mon 3/5 Mar 20, 27; Apr 3 Alex Klarfeld
Jaywoo Kim
Samantha Tan
Jessica Tiu
Lab 8 : Wheel Free Tue 4/10 Tue 4/17 Melissa Wagner
Franklin Ditzler
Lab 9 : Robot Arm Tue 4/17 Tue 4/24 Wes Myers
Franklin Ditzler
Lab 10 : Robot Sumo (Student Defined Lab)
 Tue 4/23 Wed 5/2 TBA
Kaushik Viswanathan was largely responsible for developing the content of these labs. While he is not around to TA, he has graciously offered to field emails if you require help. You can contact him at kviswana @ andrew.

Previous student defined labs

Lab
Year

NXT Labs
RoboPong 2011
Gold Mine 2010
Robot Exchange 2009

Handyboard Labs
Football Challenge 2007
RoboJoust 2006
Robot Sort 2005
Poison Ball 2004

Video Demos

Student Defined Lab 2011: RoboPong:
Additional Information :

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