Wassim Tawil
TAs: William Dubel
Steven Pickles
Instructors: A. A Arroyo
E. M. Schwartz
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
EEL 5666
Intelligent Machines Design Laboratory
Weekly Report 1 (
My name is Wassim Tawil and I’m
entering my 5th year in Electrical Engineering. I signed up for IMDL
to gain some knowledge in building an intelligent machine and also to apply all
the theories I’ve been learning in my classes. I think it will be a challenging
and rewarding experience. I don’t have a definite idea on the kind of robot I
want to build yet; I’m trying to find something I’m capable of building within
ten weeks. I have a few ideas and I think I’ll decide by the end of this week.
At that time, I will also order my board. I will buy the MAVRIC-IIB from
bdmicro.com. I bought the book by Joseph Jones, Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation which I will use in
conjunction with the class lectures. The last time I had a C programming class
was two years ago, so I will consider buying a manual to refresh my memory.