Proposal

Narrative

2023 EECS Robotics The College of Engineering is committed to providing our students with as many technological skills as possible. Not only will this boost the students’ confidence, it will expose them to the type of equipment they will be expected to operate beyond the classroom. This proposal will provide the faculty with the necessary equipment to better prepare the students while simultaneously positioning the students for success in their chosen field(s). Additionally, this equipment is needed to maintain FAU’s ABET accreditation which takes into account equipment relevance. Specifically, we are continuing to upgrade the labs: We are adding more Robots to the Graduate and Undergraduate Robotics Class and Senior Design EEL 4930 Robotic Applications EEL 5661 Robotic Applications EGN4950c Senior Design 1 EGN4952c Senior Design 2 We propose to furnish equipment for an additional thirty students / Teams per semester. The project is based on the Turtlebot Open source projects, with the base robot chassis using the Educational Roomba chassis #RCi3099. Students will be required to assemble the project, using the supplied parts and integrate into a functional robot capable of mapping rooms / areas and using the stereo vision camera system to autonomously control the robot platform. Programmable using R.O.S.2 and Ubuntu Linux, Python and C / C++ / C# Including other tools, parts, modules and supplies to support the project. 25 units and spare parts = $29900. The Tech fee request is for $29,900.

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Timeline

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Sustainability

EECS has purchased many units, this is to supply additional units for continued class enrollment.

Resource Matching

EECS has purchased many units, this is to supply additional units for continued class enrollment.

Implementing Organization

EECS