Student Collaborators Wanted
Project: Synthetic Ecologies, Autonomous Botanists
Building Crystal Gardening Robots and an Interactive Terrain for them to Inhabit
We are particularly interested in collaborators with experience in any of the following: small scale robotics, python programming, electronics, mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering and those with mechanical aptitude looking to work on this project.
Students will be involved in working on multiple facets of the project including the autonomous navigation system for our robot, choreographing its movements and behavior. Students will also be working on the digitally fabricated robot skin and the mechanized synthetic terrain habitat which the robots inhabit. Our lab utilizes extensive digital modeling and fabrication techniques which students will be engaged with. This includes a variety of hands on exposure working with large scale CNC routers and 3D printers. We use micro-controllers (arduino, pcduino), sensors, remotely operated vision systems and IR technology to coordinate behavior in the robots.
Additional project info and images found here:
http://www.designfutureslab.com/synthetic-ecologies.html
Contact:
Interested applicants should contact the Director of the lab,
Assistant Professor, Nicole Koltick (nrk37@drexel.edu).
Project: Synthetic Ecologies, Autonomous Botanists
Building Crystal Gardening Robots and an Interactive Terrain for them to Inhabit
We are particularly interested in collaborators with experience in any of the following: small scale robotics, python programming, electronics, mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering and those with mechanical aptitude looking to work on this project.
Students will be involved in working on multiple facets of the project including the autonomous navigation system for our robot, choreographing its movements and behavior. Students will also be working on the digitally fabricated robot skin and the mechanized synthetic terrain habitat which the robots inhabit. Our lab utilizes extensive digital modeling and fabrication techniques which students will be engaged with. This includes a variety of hands on exposure working with large scale CNC routers and 3D printers. We use micro-controllers (arduino, pcduino), sensors, remotely operated vision systems and IR technology to coordinate behavior in the robots.
Additional project info and images found here:
http://www.designfutureslab.com/synthetic-ecologies.html
Contact:
Interested applicants should contact the Director of the lab,
Assistant Professor, Nicole Koltick (nrk37@drexel.edu).