Robotics Seminar

Department of Mechatronics and Robotics

Faculty of Engineering

Assiut University

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Instructor:

Yasser F. O. Mohammad

Office Hours:

Sunday 10:12

Wednesday: 10:1

Office location: Electrical Engineering Department. First Floor, Ask about Dr. Yasser's office.

Outline and Objectives:

In this seminar course, you are required to prepare and give a talk about one of the subjects outlined in this document. Your talk should be based on a technical report about the subject. The main objectives of this course are:

Improving softskills and increasing student's confidence
Introducing the subject of Robotics in an interactive way
Learning to have a critical view of what the student learns
Having fun learning about a new and challenging subject

Grading:

Item	Degrees
Presentation	20
First Report	20
Second Report	15
Third Report	0
Attendance	10
Activity during seminars	5
Oral Examination	30

Presentations:

ID	Date	Subject	Presentaer	Report
1001	17/10/2010	History of Robotics
1002	17/10/2010	Mobile Robots
1003	31/10/2010	Behavior of Robots
1004	31/10/2010	Soccer Robots
1005	31/10/2010	Vision Based Control

Rules:

You can use any resources for preparing your report and presentation (books, web, etc) giving that you explicitly cite them in the report
You should provide a coherent ordered and elegant report and presentation not just copied contents
You should have at least 5 different sources (indicated in the references).
Your report and presentation should be your work. If substantial copying was found in either of them you may lose the marks of the presentation of the report. Even if it is just average but your work, it worth much more than an excellent article that is not yours.
You can use the guide in this page to help you structure your report (http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-3-2006-90265.asp) .
The title page, abstract, conclusions, and references are mandatory
You will be given 40 minutes including Q&A (this means you should finish your presentation in 20 minutes)
You will be assigned three subjects from this list. You have to select one of them and prepare your material on it
You will be told about your presentation time and subjects 14 days before its time.
If you have an urgent reason to delay your presentation, you MUST inform me using EMAIL as early as possible and provide enough evidence that your delay is absolutely necessary. In this case you will be assigned another time but this time with only one week preparation time.
If you do not like any of your subjects, you can suggest a new one (not in the list of topics in this site) within 3 days of your assignment by EMAIL and if your suggestion is accepted you can proceed to use your suggested subject otherwise you have to use one of your assigned 3 subjects.
You can use either Template1.doc or Template2 for your report. Your report should not be less than 20-24 pages of Template1 or 12-16 pages of Template2. It should be clear that the size of the report has little effect on its quality as long as it complies to the limits above.
You are free to use whatever template you like for your presentation. Be creative and have fun