Facchetti, G. (2024, July), GIFTS: Tools to Help Students Prototype and Test Autonomous Robot Navigation Algorithms  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts. 10.18260/1-2--48625

\bibitem{asee_peer_48625}
  Facchetti, G. (2024, July), \emph{GIFTS: Tools to Help Students Prototype and Test Autonomous Robot Navigation Algorithms}
  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts.
  10.18260/1-2--48625

Giang-Nam Facchetti.  "GIFTS: Tools to Help Students Prototype and Test Autonomous Robot Navigation Algorithms".  15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/48625 Internet.  25 Feb, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_48625}
  Giang-Nam Facchetti.
  "GIFTS: Tools to Help Students Prototype and Test Autonomous Robot Navigation Algorithms".
  \emph{15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/48625 Internet.  25 Feb, 2025

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AB  - In this GIFTS paper, we present three instructional tools that were developed at INSTITUTION to help students prototype and test autonomous navigation algorithms. All students at INSTITUTION are required to complete the first-year engineering design course and work in teams of about eight students to design, build, and test a vehicle that can navigate an arena using an internally developed vision system that provides student teams with the equivalent of compass (heading) and GPS (location) information for their vehicle within the arena. One of the biggest challenges we have observed is that students often wait too long to begin developing and testing their navigation algorithms while their vehicle is still being assembled. To account for this downtime, some resources our INSTITUTION has created to help students learn the fundamentals of navigational algorithms and stay on track with the course project include: 1) Clipboard Tanks, 2) Physical Tanks, and 3) an online simulator. In this GIFTS paper, we detail these three instructional resources and describe how these tools help students to continually educate themselves and put into practice their programming algorithms at different stages of the course.
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