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Announcements |
| Date Posted: May 1, 2012 |
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Robot Competition: Click here for images and video. ME 100 Lab: Please submit your team Final reports to your lab TA. Final Presentations will take place in your lab section. Robot competition on Monday 4/30, TBE Great Hall. Please arrive with your robot before 12:45 pm. The competition will begin at 1:00 pm. No class on Wed 4/25. ME 100 Lab: The lab will start in the second week of the semester. No lab during the first week. The printed syllabus contains errors in the date column. The first homework is due on Monday 1/23. Please refer to the web version of the syllabus for the correct dates. The textbook for the UNLV section is Engineering Fundamentals and Problem Solving, 6th Edition Arvid R. Eide et al., ©2012, ISBN-13 9780073534916, McGrawHill. If you wish to purchase other editions of the textbook, please make sure that the homework questions are the same as in the sixth edition text listed here. Otherwise, you might inadvertently find yourself answering unassigned questions and losing credit for your work. |
Part I: Lecture
| MEG 100 Syllabus (click on image at right): Schedule, Policies, Homework. The syllabus will be updated frequently during the semester. |
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Guidelines for Homework Submission: Distance
Ed. Students
(Clark County High Schools) Please submit your homework via WEBCT. on the date due before class. (Login to https://webcampus.nevada.edu/webct/entryPage.dowebct and follow instructions) You MUST follow the WEBCT submission guidelines for every homework submission. |
Guidelines for Homework
Submission:
UNLV Students Students attending class at UNLV must submit their assignments on paper in the classroom every Monday before class. See guidelines for Homework submission |
| Class notes: Notes from recent lectures will be posted here, usually weekly. Click image at right. |
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| Course Objectives: What you will learn. Click image at right. |
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Part II: Design project (ME 100L)
ME 100L is integrated with the lecture ME 100.
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Design Assignment: The Sumo Robot. Definitions and rules for the competition at the end of the semester. Click image at right. |
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| Design Project Schedule: Weekly project
assignments.
Click image at right. |
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| Cover page format for ME 100 Lab reports and Homework | |
| ME 100 Lab Schedule and Opening Times |
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| Permissible Robot parts. Only Original
Lego NXT parts and the parts from the earlier Lego Mindstorms set are
allowed. The Mindstorms 'brick' (Programmable microcomputer) may not be
used. Parts must not be altered in any way. Click on the Figure at
left to see the permitted Mindstorm Lego parts.
Click here for the Lego NXT manual. |
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Movies from the Spring 2005 Sumo Robot Competition Two robots are facing each other. The winning robot pushes its opponent off the platform. All robots are autonomous and no human intervention is allowed.
A few movie clips in wmv
Version 9 format are posted below: To download a movie clip to
your PC: Right click on hyperlink, select Save
target as.., and save file to disk.
1. Cliffhanger (26 MB) A robot holding out on the edge, without falling off. Despite its precarious situation here, the Team 14 robot hung on successfully until the last round. 2. Flip_it (2.7MB) A robot is toppled. 3. Straight-pushout (1.87 MB) This round was over in seconds. Three robots made it into the final round. Each robot in the final round competed against every other robot. The robot of Team 1 (Ryan B. Milliron, Warren S. Havens, Timothy A. Smith, and Daniel J. Skoblar) won twice and is the winner of the competition. View the winning round below: 4. Team1_Final2 (5.3 MB)
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Movies from SPRING 2004 Semester Robot Competition (Egg Hunting Robots) Two robots are collecting white eggs that are randomly dispersed over the platform. The robots must avoid black eggs that the . The winning robot has the most white eggs, and no black ones, by the end of the three-minute heat.. All robots are autonomous and no human intervention is allowed. The Spring 2004 Robot Competition was held on May 3. 10 teams (6 teams from the Advanced technologies Academy), (4 teams from UNLV) competed. Click below to see movies from the Spring 2004 egg hunting competition:
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Part III - LEGO References and Literature
Other links:
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Paul Oh's