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- Category: Harpeth Hall High School Winterim Class
- Published: 12 January 2016
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This class serves as an introduction to medical robotics for early high school level students taught over a 3 week period. The class was given in January 2016 and 2017 at Harpeth Hall in Nashville TN during that school's "winterim" three-week extra class period. 9th and 10th grade girls were instructed for 80 minutes every day for a total of 14 classes, including one trip to the ARMA lab at Vanderbilt University.
The goals of this education activity are:
- To provide students with relevance to the mathematics and trigonometry concepts learned in class. This is achieved via an example of solving the position analysis equations for a planar parallel robot.
- To introduce students to medical robotics and to provide basic information about minimally invasive surgery and the role of robotics in assisting surgeons.
- To introduce students with basic concepts about robotics and to do this via a classroom activity involving programming using Arduino.
On this page, you can find links to the different kinds of materials used in instruction and preparation.
Technical Report:
Lecture Notes:
- Introduction to Robotics
- Introduction to Medical Robotics
- Arduino usage
- Electricity and Electronics
- Motors (including arduino lab work)
- Geometry/trigonometry review
- Parallel robot inverse kinematics
- Famous Mathematical Curves (choose a shape to draw)
Handouts:
- Evolution of Robotics
- Binary number overview handout
- Analog-to-digital conversion practice .
Robot Files:
Course Plan:
Videos:
- Calibration Instructions: