ETEC 177 - Robotics 1

5.0 Credits
Through the use of projects and hands-on exercises, students will learn to program a small scale robot to perform basic navigation under program control, with various sensor inputs, using feedback and control techniques.
Prerequisite ETEC 105 or ETEC 161 or concurrent enrollment or instructor permission.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Program a microcontroller.
Describe the operation of a servo motor.
Demonstrate the use of different types of basic sensors.
Troubleshoot the software and hardware of a small robotic system.
Program simple artificial intelligence into a robotic system.
Write and execute a variety of programs for robotic navigation.
Implement the use of a new microcontroller platform into an existing robot system.