Putting It All Together: Programming Robotics Peripheral Vision
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In this culminating activity of the unit, students bring together everything they've learned in order to write the code to solve the Grand Challenge. The code solution takes two images captured by robots and combines them to create an image that can be focused at different distances, similar to the way that humans can focus either near or far. They write in a derivative of C++ called QT; all code is listed in this activity.
For a robot to be useful, software must be written to enable it to perform its functions. This is one of the main phases in the design and construction of robots. In this activity, students write the software for their hypothetical robot. In a real-life situation, computer programmers would work closely with electrical and computer engineers in designing the software for the robot to function as intended.
After this activity, students should be able to:
- Initialize a two-dimensional array.
- Initialize a new instance of a vector class.
- Store RGB values in a vector.
- Read data from the vector and write it to a new image.
- Create, compile and test code that addresses the Grand Challenge.
- Explain how this code writing process is similar to what a computer science engineer "does."
Tennessee State Standards for C++ Programming Applications (2005)
- Standard 5.0 - The student will write and document an executable program in C++ programming language.