A visual robot-programming environment for multidisciplinary education

Cross, Jennifer; Bartley, Christopher; Hamner, Emily; Nourbakhsh, Illah

doi:10.1109/icra.2013.6630613

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“…17,18 In comparison, Cross et al applied VP in order to program a less structured hardware platform in which motors and sensors are mixed with crafting materials commonly found in classrooms. 8 Diprose et al abstracted from any specic robotic platform and developed a generalized visual language consisting of inputs, devices, thoughts and actions to form behaviors of user-dened granularity, where a prioritized list of parallel behaviors denes the overall program. 13 Datta et al applied VP in the domain of service robotics based on the same argument of enabling rst time programmers to dene the interactive behavior of their robots companions.…”

Section: Visual Programmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual commissioning of automated micro-optical assembly

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In this contribution, we present a novel approach to enable virtual commissioning for process developers in microoptical assembly. Our approach aims at supporting micro-optics experts to effectively develop assisted or fully automated assembly solutions without detailed prior experience in programming while at the same time enabling them to easily implement their own libraries of expert schemes and algorithms for handling optical components. Virtual commissioning is enabled by a 3D simulation and visualization system in which the functionalities and properties of automated systems are modeled, simulated and controlled based on multi-agent systems. For process development, our approach supports event-, state- and time-based visual programming techniques for the agents and allows for their kinematic motion simulation in combination with looped-in simulation results for the optical components. First results have been achieved for simply switching the agents to command the real hardware setup after successful process implementation and validation in the virtual environment. We evaluated and adapted our system to meet the requirements set by industrial partners laser manufacturers as well as hardware suppliers of assembly platforms. The concept is applied to the automated assembly of optical components for optically pumped semiconductor lasers and positioning of optical components for beam-shaping

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Section: Visual Programmingmentioning

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Virtual commissioning of automated micro-optical assembly

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“…VP has been an ongoing topic of research and was applied in different areas: Cross et al chose a VP approach to develop a less structured, educational hardware platform for components commonly present in class rooms [12], while Diprose et al developed a generalized visual language for arbitrary inputs, devices, sensors etc. [13] and Li et al developed a VP approach including the programming of way points and region-based programming, just to cite some selected examples.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Virtual commissioning and symbolic planning of micro-optical assembly processes

Wantia

Losch

Rosmann

2015

2015 7th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC)

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Automation in micro-optical assembly is an emergent, but steadily growing field of research. To advance the optics industry's efforts in this regard, several methods that aid optics engineers with development and deployment of assembly processes have been proposed. However, it is still a non-trivial and time-consuming task to design efficient work orders that consider movement characteristics of integrated robotic assembly systems.In this contribution, we present an approach to combine wellinvestigated symbolic planning algorithms, semantic modelling techniques and 3D simulation-based virtual commissioning to generate optimized work orders for automated micro-optical assembly and thereby help to overcome the difficulties of manual process design. Our approach is a good example for the efficiency of the eRobotics concept and demonstrates how its systematic application can resolve practical problems with existing approaches.Results indicate that our approach to automated planning is, by enabling a formal definition of quality metrics for action sequences, not only faster but also usually superior to manual generation of work orders.

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“…Scratch is, however, targeted at primary to high school students and, hence, can be considered merely a basic and simple teaching aid. More advanced tools are available for both students and educators such as CREATE Lab Visual Programmer [9].…”

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Teaching programming using dedicated Arduino Educational Board

Perenc

Jaworski

Duch

2019

Comp Applic In Engineering

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This paper presents a new approach to teaching programming to undergraduate computer science students. A dedicated Arduino board along with custom application programming interface (API) was introduced into programming classes with a view to strengthen students’ engagement and improving the attractiveness of the course. The students were presented with basic functionalities of the board, which gave them a possibility to accomplish their own projects—typically video games—without any background in electronics. The level of engagement of the participants was observed by the tutors during classes and also reviewed based on questionnaires filled by 347 first‐, second‐, and third‐year undergraduates. The results indicated that the proposed approach was well received by nearly 80%, while nearly 75% of the participants expressed a wish to continue their Computer Science education using Arduino.

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A visual robot-programming environment for multidisciplinary education

Cited by 28 publications

References 7 publications

Virtual commissioning of automated micro-optical assembly

Virtual commissioning of automated micro-optical assembly

Virtual commissioning and symbolic planning of micro-optical assembly processes

Teaching programming using dedicated Arduino Educational Board

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