DoDEA Standards

PT-MS1a3 identify the type of preparation, skills, and abilities required to gain entry-level employment in variety of career fields;
PT-MS1a4 identify personal career interests;
PT-MS1a5 explore how personal interests, hobbies, extra-curricular activities, volunteer work, and so on may be related to career fields;
PT-MS1a7 explore reliability and dependability behaviors e.g., punctuality, attendance, completion of assignments, etc.; and
PT-MS1a8 understand safety factors relevant to specific career fields including safety rules for school labs, resources, tools, and materials.
PT-MS5a2 learn concepts, skills and processes necessary to program/ code/create a software application;
PT-MS6a1 research careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics;
PT-MS6a2 define technology and the designed world;
PT-MS6a3 understand the impact of technology on society;
PT-MS6a4 apply problem-solving strategies to the design process in order to create potential solutions; and
PT-MS6a5 understand electrical power including currents, circuits, energy sources, conversion methods, applications, and efficiency.

In this course, we will use the term ROV more often than "robot" simply because we will be designing, building, and testing a remotely operated robot, commonly called a "ROV" for Remotely Operated Vehicle. These devices work on land, in the air, and underwater, depending on their purpose. Some of these ROVs are autonomous A device that includes operational programming control of some sort. , meaning they depend on some sort of internal programming to do their job, and either report their data on a set schedule or when the task assigned is completed. Other ROVs are tetheredA device that has a control link and frequently a data link wired directly between the control device and the ROV, and their operation is controlled from a site connected to the ROV. Sometimes these tethers carry data from the ROV to the control point, in other cases, the data is gathered after the ROV mission is completed.

How are ROV devices used? Watch this video to see a very famous submersible ROV discovery (alternate link, in case YouTube link fails)

This video shows you examples of surface ROVs (alternate link, in case YouTube link fails

And this video shows you some airborne ROVs, as opposed to "drones" ((alternate link, in case YouTube link fails)

This video is a compilation of one type of robot we may use to construct our ROV system ((alternate link, in case YouTube link fails)

And this video is another type of robot we may use (alternate link, in case YouTube link fails)