- Planning, including: hardware selection and design.
- Manufacturing, including the manufacture of mechanical, electronic, and programs.
- Trials.
In this stage, we plan what we will create, quite simply, we want to make robots that like? useful for what? Things that need to be determined in this stage:
- Dimensions, namely length, width, height, and approximate weight of the robot.
- Structure of the material, whether of aluminum, iron, wood, plastic, and so forth.
- How a robot, the robot contains parts and functions of the parts. For example, arms, conveyors, elevators, power supply.
- Sensors that will be used robot.
- Mechanism, how the mechanical system so that the robot can complete the task.
- Control methods, namely how the robot can be controlled and driven, microprocessor used, and the block diagram of the system.
- Strategy to win the game.
There are three jobs to be done in this phase, the mechanical manufacturing, electronics, and programming. Each requires people with different specialties, namely:
- Mechanical Specialist, that match the fields of science in mechanical engineering and industrial engineering.
- Electronics Specialist, that match the fields of science in electrical engineering.
- Programming Specialist, that match the fields of science informatics techniques.
So in a robot team, there should be personnel who have specific skills that are complementary. After an outline picture of a robot designed form, then the order can begin to be made. General framework robot made of aluminum or aluminum box elbow. One segment of the frame connected to each other with aluminum rivets. Aluminum rivet is a kind of nail that is useful for attaching sheet metal to close.
Manufacture of electronic systems
Parts of electronic systems designed in accordance with the desired function. For example, to drive a DC motor is needed h-bridge, while the relay is required to drive the transistor switch. Sensors to be used to learn and understand how it works, for example:
Proximity sensor, can use the SRF04, GP2D12, or assemble their own ultrasonic or infrared sensor module.
- Sensor direction, could use a compass sensor CMPS03 or Dins more.
- Temperature sensor, can use sensor LM35 or the other.
- Flame sensor / heat, can use UV Tron or Thermophile.
- Line follower sensor / detector line, can use the LED and photo transistor.
