Research Projects | Class Projects | Publications | Resources

Research Projects

• Crawler: Autonomous Walking Robot
• El RowCon: The Embedded Linux Mobile RowBot Controller
• MPS: Mouse Positioning System

Student Class Projects

• Posters from Spring 2002 Robotics class(were you in my Spring 2002 class?? Send me a copy of your poster!!!)
• Posters from STEM 2001
• Posters from the Spring 2000 Robotics class
• Pictures from summer 1999

Publications

• Pushing Beyond Traditional School and Course Boundaries: High School and University Students Collaborate on an Interdisciplinary Project
  Adrian Rusu, Amalia Rusu, Jennifer Kay, and Hong Zhang
  Proceedings of FIE 2007: The Frontiers in Education Conference, Milwaukee, October 2007.
  

• Getting Down & Dirty: Incorporating Homogeneous Transformations and Robot Kinematics into a Computer Science Robotics Class."
  Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Robots and Robot Venues, March 2007.
  

• Two Lab Exercises for an Introductory Robotics Class
  Jennifer Kay
  AAAI Spring Symposium on Accessible Hands-on AI and Robotics Education, March 2004.
  
  
• Teaching Robotics from a Computer Science Perspective
  Jennifer Kay
  Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 19, no. 2, December 2003.
  
  
• Open Source Software and Computer Science Education
  Keith O'Hara and Jennifer Kay
  Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 18, no. 3, Februrary, 2003.
  
  
• Investigating Open Source Software and Educational Robotics
  Keith O'Hara and Jennifer Kay
  Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol. 18, no. 3, Februrary, 2003
  
  

Resources

• A Gentle Introduction to Homogeneous Transformations and Robot Kinematics (suitable for use in an Introduction to Robotics class)
• Slides to accompany the Introduction to Homogeneous Transformations and Robot Kinematics document.
• A selection of papers available on the web for use in an undergraduate introduction to Robotics course. (pretty dated)
• Step-by-step directions, blueprints, and a parts list to help you build your own walking robot can be found on the Crawler web page.