Robots Gone Wild: Advanced Field Robotics Development Tactics
Room: 1305, Bldg: Newell-Simon Hall, 4804 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213It is challenging to build and test Field Robots. Project timelines, tuning issues, budgetary restraints, and even crashes (both literal and figurative) can cause setbacks. In order to enable more developers to work in parallel and reduce the risk of an expensive and/or dangerous failure, SKA Custom Robots and Machines employs a number of tactics, including systems engineering, breaking out individual subcomponents for testing and electrical / software integration, building standalone prototypes of subsystems, using a smaller, lower cost robot to act as a surrogate for a full scale system, and simulation. This talk aims to explore some of these development methodologies, when they are appropriate, and how to employ them at a high-level. Speaker(s): , Spencer Krause Agenda: 6:30 PM Gather and light dinner 07:00 PM talk 09:00 adjourn Room: 1305, Bldg: Newell-Simon Hall, 4804 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213