Robotics: Integrated Systems Design
• Today
– How to work in a
multidisciplinary team
– Form teams
– First Lab Assignment
• Monday
– MLK Day
• Wednesday
– DoF and other common
concepts
What is a Team?
• Two or more people who interact with each
other, are interdependent, and define
themselves and are defined by others as a
team.
– Otherwise you are a group ( or a party).
What else is a Team?
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Two or more people who work together to
achieve a common purpose
– What will be your team’s common purpose in
this class?
1. To perform the lab assignments
2. To design and implement a robot for the Urban
Search & Rescue Project
3. To learn about each other areas from one another
Team Process
• How are decisions made?
• How are conflicts resolved?
• Team Roles
– CTO: Chief Technical Officers (Facilitator)
• Keeps the team focused and productive
– Scribe
• Documents the activities and decisions of the team
– Rat Hole Watcher
• Makes sure the team doesn’t get too far off topic
Running an Effective Team Meeting
• Meetings must have a detailed agenda
– What topics are to be covered, what activities will be
performed
• Team Roles Assigned
– CTO, Scribe, Rate Hole Watcher
• Document the Meeting
– What was discussed or accomplished
– What are the “action items” and who is responsible for
each one.
– Provides a group memory
– Reminds individuals the assignments they need to
complete
Team Meeting Exercise
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Get into your assigned teams
Introduce each other and trade contact information
Run a 10-minute team meeting
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Assign roles, use the meeting minutes template
Here is the meeting agenda:
1. Individual team members list 5 characteristics of a good team
member
2. Individual team members list 5 characteristics of a poor team
member
3. As a team come to a consensus of a top 5 list for good
characteristics and poor characteristics in order of priority.
Review Lists
My list of top 5 “Do Be’s”
• Completes assignments on time
• Communicates
• Uses constructive criticism rather than
destructive criticism.
• Is on time for meetings
• Sense of humor
Puzzle Game
Form Teams
Solve the given jigsaw puzzle without
looking at the picture
What did we observe?
• It is difficult to solve the puzzle without
having a clear picture of what the objective is
• Team members automatically assumed
certain roles based on their personality types
and styles
Brainstorming
• Conceptual Blocks
Impede your ability to generate
alternatives and make you fixated on
certain ideas.
Stereotyping
Generalizing
Making unwarranted assumptions
Types of Mental Blocks
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Perceptual
Emotional
Cultural
Environmental
Intellectual
Expressive
To Think Creatively, use other people’s view
Creative Thinking Methods
–Vertical Thinking
–Lateral Thinking
–Futuring
Example
• An Electric Plant in Great Lakes area is having
problems with zebra mussels. The mussels are
forming a thick layer inside the cooling intake
and reducing flow rate resulting serious
problems in the plant. Since they are not a
native species to the area there are no natural
predators.
How can we reduce the impact of the mussels?
Also, how to economically dispose them once
removed?
Team Assignment
• Build a Rube Goldberg Machine using your Lego Kits
• http://www.cs.siue.edu/robotics/integratedsystems/