Description: (Formerly numbered Electrical Engineering 184DB.) Laboratory, five hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: courses M16, 110, 110L, 184DA. Courses centered on group project that runs year long to give students intensive experience on hardware design, microcontroller programming, and project coordination. Several projects based on autonomous robots that traverse small mazes and courses offered yearly and target regional competitions. Students may submit proposals that are evaluated and approved by faculty members. Topics include sensing circuits and amplifier-based design, microcontroller programming, feedback control, actuation, and motor control. Letter grading.

Units: 2.0