IDE3810 Design Innovation Lab

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IDE3810 Design Innovation Lab

• Lecturer Dr. Charlie C. L. WANG, MMW425
• Tel [phone]
• Email cwang_at_acae.cuhk.edu.hk
• Time 830pm-915 pm, Tuesday
• Venue Rm. 706, MMW
• Tutors Mr. Liu Tong (tliu_at_acae.cuhk.edu.hk)
  
• Mr. Zhou Shi-wei
• (swzhou_at_acae.cuhk.edu.hk)

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Course Objectives

• Team-based design projects of innovative products
• Practice of quality functional deployment and
  technological innovation in design
• Understand team behavior and tools
• Use multi-media design software and systems

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Assessment

• Project I 65
• Project II 35

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Project I

• Building an autonomous machine with smart LEGO
  bricks (Mindstorms)
• The functionality of the machine
• Novel? Or Not. (This is very IMPORTANT!!!)

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Project II

• Constructing a virtual running environment for
  the autonomous machine designed in project I with
  Alias Wavefront Maya System
• Generating an animation film of the autonomous
  machine running in the virtual world with Maya
  system

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Introduction of LEGO MindStorms I

• The basic LEGO MindStorms Kit
• Cost about US200
• About 750 building block pieces
• Centerpiece is RCX (programmable control unit)

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Introduction of LEGO Mindstorms II

• RCX 16MHz CPU and 32kB RAM
• GUI Programming environment
• Library for generating VB programs to control RCX
• RCX houses a IR transmitter/receiver
• Sending and receiving data from desktop or other
  RCXs
• 2 Moters
• 2 Touch Sensors
• 1 Light Sensor

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Introduction of LEGO Mindstorms III
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GUI of RCX Programming
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Introduction of Maya

• Modeling
• - Advanced polygon, NURBS and subdivision Surface
  modeling tools
• Animation
• A comprehensive range of keyframe, non-linear and
  advanced character animation editing tools
• Deformation tools for modeling and animation
• Rendering
• A unified rendering workflow provides easy and
  consistent access to software, hardware, mental
  ray and vector renderers through a common
  interface

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Example A LEGO Racing Robot

• A simple racing robot
• Children from the age of 8 can successfully build
  them with LEGO bricks
• A guide

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Project Discussion

• Form project groups
• Discuss about the project topics
• Useful Links
• http//www.legolab.daimi.au.dk/Projects/projects.h
  tml
• http//www.techno-stuff.com

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