This project is broken down into two parts:

Part I: Course Development
We plan to generate a course sequence, lab course, and instructional material on the robot control with ADA. The sequence is planned for one academic year (3 quarters, or 2 semesters) and will be offered to seniors and first-year graduate students. The course will be offered to Electrical, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Engineering students.
The core of the sequence is a series of hands-on projects that the students will design and execute. The series will culminate in the design of embedded-system software for a robotic mouse that maneuvers autonomously in a maze and computes an optimum path to the maze center.

Part II: Tool Development
We develop a comprehensive set of tools to implement robot navigation, and to be used in our academic course. These tools will be employed in three projects based on the ADA programming language at the beginning of the course, and in a major project on maze solving in the final quarter.

This project overlaps with the Robotic Simulator that is also under development by the D.F.L.

Members Involved with the project

The project is being worked on by : Chris Papademetrious
The project is being advised by Xiaoxun Zhu, Moshe Kam