Summary

This chapter outlines a suggested process for developing your "to do" list as you develop your robot project. This process is called systems engineering. Our first step was to create use cases, or descriptions of how the robot is to behave from a user’s perspective. Then we created more detail behind the use cases by creating storyboards, where we went step by step through the use case. Our example followed the robot finding and recognizing toys, before picking them up and putting them in the toy box. We extracted our hardware and software needs, creating a to do list of what the robot will be able to do. Finally, we wrote a specification of one of our critical sensors, the camera.