A lab report tells the aim, method, and results of an experiment. Its goal is to persuade the audience to accept the study.

Lab reports in general have eight basic elements: title, abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusion, and references. Some lab reports have additional elements, such as acknowledgments and appendixes, while some lab reports might lack some of the elements.

Our assignment was to create a video that discusses a lab report of our choice, analyze it using the textbook, look at how it follows the format (explained in the textbook, Technical Communications), and if it is different, how so, and why it would be. In our case, we chose a lab, Real Time Motion Generation and Control for Biped Robot (Link: Real Time Motion Generation and Control for Biped Robot -1st Report: Walking Gait Pattern Generation), which turned out to have a slightly different format than the textbook.

If the video player doesn’t work, use the link: Group 3 Lab video