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First Robots, Rack 'N' Roll: Behind the Design : 30 Profiles of Award-Winning Robot Design

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    April 8, 2008
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Wilczynski, Vince & Stephanie Slezycki.  FIRST Robots: Rack 'n' Roll; 30 Profiles of Award-Winning Robot Design. Rockport: Quayside. Apr. 2008. 272p. ill. ISBN 978-1-59253-411-1. $39.99. ENGINEERING.

The FIRST Robotics competition (www.usfirst.org) partners school students with engineering and design mentors to explore science, technology, and themselves through robotics.  The challenge for each team is to develop a robot capable of out-performing other entries in a game that changes annually.  Here, Wilczynski (mechanical engineering, U.S. Coast Guard Acad.), a FIRST Robotics Foundation board member, and Slezycki, an engineering student and FIRST competitor, document through photographs, drawings, and text the 2007 FIRST competition: Rack 'n' Roll.  Thirty profiles of award-winning robots and their developers are presented.  Robots were judged based on their performance in the many rounds of the game and the entries' creativity, design excellence, quality, and control system automation.  Teams are given design specifications and a basic kit of parts and components, and from there they select strategies to play the game, develop functional requirements, conceptualize a robot, source and fabricate parts and assemblies, test materials, and develop control code.  The 45-day design cycle is a learning process and is delightfully revealed, without repetition, through the profiles.  Visually stunning, a mix of narrative and design details, this volume is the perfect coffee-table book for gear heads, tinkerers, and electromechanical developers of all ages.  For public library and college engineering and technology collections.  --Library Journal, April 2008

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Vince Wilczynski, Ph.D., directs the mechanical engineering major at a New England institution of higher education where he has incorporated robotics and homeland security projects into the mechanical engineering curriculum. He serves as the Vice President of Public Awareness for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, is a member of the Executive Advisory Board of the FIRST Robotics Foundation and is a fellow with the American Council on Education.Stephanie Slezycki, a FIRST Robotics alum, is a mechanical engineer at a marine systems defense contractor. She is engaged in technical evaluation and implementation of design improvements to future platforms and also studies the adaptation of robotic technology to improve manufacturing processes.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rockport Pub (April 8, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1592534112
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1592534111
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