Fostering Science and Technology Interest in Chilean Children with Educational Robot Kits

Navarrete, P; Nettle, Cristóbal J.; Oliva, Constanza; Solís, Miguel A.

doi:10.1109/lars-sbr.2016.27

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“…Most robots used in commercial educational platforms are proprietary. It is worth mentioning the well-known Lego, which has featured for some years in educational robotics kits, with different versions: Mindstorms RCX, NXT, EV3 and WeDo [15,21].…”

Section: Robotic Platforms For Stem Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Arduino boards appeared some years ago, in an effort to work around the closed-platforms limitation, providing cheaper and more adapted robotic platforms. This is a free hardware board that allows a wide variety of low-cost robotic components to be added [21,[25][26][27][28]. Thus, beginning with a basic and affordable Arduino platform, teachers and students can freely adapt it to their necessities, developing an effective and low-cost robot, as described in [29][30][31][32].…”

Section: Robotic Platforms For Stem Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Exploring the existing literature, we found a set of exercises that are frequently used in different teaching frameworks and academic proposals, in an almost cross-curricular manner. One of the classic projects is the follow-line behavior [15,21,28,35], as shown in Figure 14. In this project, the robot has IR sensors pointing to the ground, which is white but has a thick black line.…”

Section: Basic Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this project, the robot has IR sensors pointing to the ground, which is white but has a thick black line. Another is the avoidance of obstacles [21,35], as shown in Figure 15, where the robot has an ultrasound sensor that allows it to detect objects that interfere with its movement. The student's program must then order the motors to stop and turn until they find a free space to go forward again.…”

Section: Basic Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At international level, numerous championships are organized, which bring together students from all over the world to learn, share experiences and enjoy the development of robotic prototypes. It is worth highlighting the RoboCup Junior (http://rcj.robocup.org) [20][21][22], with tests such as the rescue or the robotic soccer, as well as the First Lego League (FLL) and the VEX Robotics Competitions (https://www.vexrobotics.com/vexedr/competition). In Finland, the SciFest competition (http://www.scifest.fi) attracts students from all over Europe [23] and has agreements with educational institutions in South Africa [24].…”

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confidence: 99%

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PiBot: An Open Low-Cost Robotic Platform with Camera for STEM Education

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2018

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This paper presents a robotic platform, PiBot, which was developed to improve the teaching of robotics with vision to secondary students. Its computational core is the Raspberry Pi 3 controller board, and the greatest novelty of this prototype is the support developed for the powerful camera mounted on board, the PiCamera. An open software infrastructure written in Python language was implemented so that the student may use this camera as the main sensor of the robotic platform. Furthermore, higher-level commands were provided to enhance the learning outcome for beginners. In addition, a PiBot 3D printable model and the counterpart for the Gazebo simulator were also developed and fully supported. They are publicly available so that students and schools without the physical robot or that cannot afford to obtain one, can nevertheless practice, learn and teach Robotics using these open platforms: DIY-PiBot and/or simulated-PiBot.

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Section: Robotic Platforms For Stem Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%