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Provisional Marks

Provisional results are available from Your Marks. Please check that all the marks have been entered correctly. Note that groupmark isn't just the sum of all the group marks -- it has been adjusted based on your contribution to the group as measured by webpa.

Returning Your Kit

I'll be in the consulting room G01 in the CSE building (K17) Wed 2-4 Thur 4-5 and Fri 2-3 so you can return your robot kit. You can also return it next week at my consults (Wed 2-4 - no consult on Monday because it's a holiday). Make sure that you have taken a picture of your robot to include in your report before you take it apart.

Barbecue moved to Round House

The barbecue on Thursday has been moved to the Roundhouse

Week 12 Activities

Monday 2-3 Law G04 is the wrap up with the awards for best robot and best maze.

Thursday 2-3 there is a barbecue in the Round House. Please come because we are buying 1100 sausages for you to eat!

Friday 5pm your final report is due. Don't forget that you need 10 weeks worth of entries in your diary to get 5 marks, so if you missed a week, you can make up for it with a diary entry this week.

On Friday the WebPA evaluation will enabled. This one will affect the group marks you get. Don't forget to do it, because the group mark will decrease if you don't do it.

And don't forget to check your marks! If you think that there are any mistakes, come see me.

Week 11 Activities

Monday 2-3 pm in Law Theatre is your chance to practice on other people's mazes. Bring your mazes and robots along.

Thursday 2-4 Law G04 is the final testing of your robots' ability to rescue a water bottle from a maze. The most important thing to remember is that you only get one attempt at the maze. You can restart at the beginning whenever you want, but the clock will keep running and when 5 minutes are up, that's it. Also, you must choose your program before you see the maze -- on RCX you must use program 1, while on NXT it must be called "maze". Results

Communications Test

I've copied the results of the CommunicationsTest from WebCT over to the wiki. You can check your results by clicking on the Your Marks link in the side bar.

Week 10 Activities

Mon 2-3 will be a talk from Claude Sammut in Law G04 about the CSE project building a robot to compete in the international Robocup rescue competition.

Thursday 2-4pm in Law G04 I'm giving people a chance to complete the preliminary mazes for half marks -- so if you can complete a maze you haven't done so far you can get 1 mark (or 0.5 marks if you just bump into the bottle without detecting it.)

Don't forget to write in your diary!

Week 9 Activities

Monday at 2pm in Law G04 Pamela Mort will talk about writing feedback. Thursday 2pm in Law G04 will be your last chance at the preliminary maze running. Note that this is for 10 of your final marks in this course. Marks so far

The Calibration and Peer Assessment part for Phase 3 must be completed by Friday 5pm. Submission instructions

I've set up WebPA (used to be called ipeer) so you can give feedback to other members of your team. Please check your unsw email for your password to login to webPA.

There is a practice evaluation due on Sunday at 5pm. Log in and have a look at it, but don't complete it till after Monday's lecture on writing feedback. This one won't affect the mark the other team members get, but please do the evaluation so you know how the system works.

Week 8 Activities

Monday 2pm in Law G04 I'm going to talk about solving mazes. Thursday 2pm in Law G04 will be your second chance at the preliminary maze running. Marks so far

Your PortfolioSubmission for Phase 3b is due Friday 5pm.

Week 7 Activities

Monday 2 pm you have a lecture in Clancy on Evaluating the Design (the third phase of the design process). Before the lecture you must submit your individual pre-work for Phase 3 of your LearningPortfolio using IndividualProjectSubmission on the wiki.

Thursday 2pm in Law we have preliminary maze running. There are 5 mazes. For each maze, you get 1 mark if your robot bumps into the bottle, and the second mark if you make a sound when you find the bottle.

Maze 1: No junctions, just follow the line.

Maze 2: Two junctions, no loops, solvable by right (or left hand) rule.

Maze 3: Three junctions, loops, solvable by right (or left hand) rule.

Maze 4: Four junctions, loops, solvable by right (or left hand) rule.

Maze 5: Six junctions, loops, not solvable by right (or left hand) rule.

I don't expect you to solve them all in week 7 -- we have two more chances in week 8 and 9. But you should definitely aim to solve maze 1 this week.

The Calibration and Peer Assessment part for Phase 2 must be completed by Friday 5pm. Submission instructions

Robot Sumo -- The Reckoning

Here are the results of the Robot Sumo competition

Also, feel free to add links to your pictures and videos on RobotSumoPictures.

I hope everyone had fun!

Week 6 Activities

Monday 2pm in Law G04 is a lecture on programming the robots.

Thursday 2-4pm in Law G04 is the RobotSumo tournament. Try to get there early (like 1:55) so we can do the weigh in and you can calibrate your light sensors. The tournament will run as 3 six or seven team round robins (two NXT and one RCX). Performance marks will be based on ranking in the round robin. But we'll have a play off amongst the winners for bragging rights.

If your robot is over the weight limit you will have to pull Lego off it until it is under the limit.

Your PortfolioSubmission for Phase 2b is due Friday 5pm.

Your team's RobotSumo report is due Sunday at 5pm.

And don't forget to write in your diary!

CPR deadline

CPR is working again, but because it was down, the deadline for the Calibration and Peer Assessment part for Phase 1 is now Tuesday 21 April (that is an 11 day extension).

Still Missing Lego?

I hope you've got all the missing pieces by now, but if you are still missing pieces I've created pages PartsListNXT and PartsListRCX under each team home page. Edit this to indicate any remaining missing pieces and email me.

Week 5 Activities

Monday 2 pm you have a lecture in Clancy on Conceptual Design (the second phase of the design process). Before the lecture you must submit your individual pre-work for Phase 2 of your LearningPortfolio using IndividualProjectSubmission on the wiki. Thursday 2pm is in the Law Theatre and is Pamela Mort on report writing. Her slides.

The Calibration and Peer Assessment part for Phase 1 must be completed by Tuesday 21/4 at 5pm. Submission instructions

The RobotSumo tournament is on Thursday of week 6. You really want to have some practice matches with other teams this week. I'm designating Tuba lab (in EE undercroft) as the official place for these. Put the time when your team wants a match on the Challenges page.

Don't forget to write in your diary!

Missing Lego

I now have lists from these groups: Null ctrlAltDel FigJam EMP Yourmumsarobot eyerobot sudo

bob++ robotek terminator Bl kamakazi roboono teamsausage teamsupermegaulimatebeast gsbot mariokart untitled

If you haven't given me a list today is your last chance. I'll give you all the missing parts on Thursday.

Week 4 Activities

Monday 2pm in Law G04 Richard Buckland will talk about how to work in groups. Thursday 2pm in Law G04 I will continue the introduction to NQC. Lecture Slides.

Your PortfolioSubmission for Phase 1b is due Friday 5pm. Make sure you log onto the CPR system and take the guided tour well before then.

And don't forget to write in your diary! Your tutor will check it every week.

CSE Accounts

All students should now have CSE computer accounts. You need these to use the Forum and the computers in our labs (but not the wiki). Before you use your CSE account you must activate it.

Week 3 Activities

Monday 2 pm you have a lecture in Clancy on Problem Definition (the first phase of the design process). Slides. Before the lecture you must submit your individual pre-work for Phase 1 of your LearningPortfolio using IndividualProjectSubmission on the wiki. I've copied the ProjectOverview to the wiki, so you no longer have to use WebCT for anything.

Your team will have a tute and a lab from 3-5pm on Monday or Thursday. Do not go to the tute and lab listed on myunsw. Go to the one listed for your team.

Thursday's lecture is in Law G04 and is an introduction to Lego and NQC. Lecture Slides.

Missing/Extra Lego

Make sure you let your tutor know what pieces you are missing if you haven't done so yet.

Note that the NXT kits come standard with just one light sensor. We've given you an extra one, but it's an RCX light sensor (a 2x4 blue brick).

Team Formation

Everyone on the signup sheets is now in a team. CategoryTeampage has a list of all the teams. I've also added a link to your team from your home page. Note that team pages can only be seen by members of that team and the tutors.

I've also created a private forum for each team at CSE forums. But I can only make it accessible to you if you register at CSE forums. So if you register you won't see your team's private forum until a day or so has passed and I run my script again.

Week 2 Activities

On Monday you have a review of the impromptu design exercise in Clancy.

On Thursday at 2pm in Law G04, we will form groups for the project. After the lecture you will meet your tutor and we will give you your robot kit. It is very important that you come to this lecture. Notes. Slides.

Week 1 Activities

On Monday we have the first lecture in the Clancy Theatre.

On Thursday there is the impromptu design activity at the location given on the sheet given out on Monday.

And check out video of last year's Robot Sumo and these pictures of robots.

Orientation Week Activities

ENGG1000 is compulsory for students in Computer Engineering and optional for Software Engineering and Computer Science students. Look at the CSE Orientation Week program