The National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program has been funding innovation at two-year colleges for over twenty years. With a focus on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy, and strong partnerships between academic institutions and industry, ATE promotes improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels.
To learn more about ATE, please visit the NSF ATE program home page.
One of the outcomes of the RoboTeams project was to create training materials to help high school, tech schools, and industry get started with Industrial robots. Here you'll find tools to get started and then some. It uses the Fanuc Educational Cart as a basis but provides easy to follow and general practices that can lead to your students earning either the Fanuc or the SACA certifications.
1. Robot Orientation -
2. Robotic Simulation
3. Define Robot Coordinates
4. Teach Pendant Operations
5. Programming Robotic Operations
6. Physical Robot Operations
7. End of Arm Tooling
8. Advanced Robot Program
9. Plant Floor Errors and recovery