Learn how to develop software using the toy LEGO Mindstorms

García, Miquel Barceló; Patterson-McNeill, Holly

doi:10.1109/fie.2002.1158730

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“…In most cases, there was a lack of a software process when developing the programs to run on the robot. In the cases were there was a software process, the students were not in control of the requirements and the process left out teaching configuration management [6] [15], which is essential when working on software projects in industry. This paper looks at the software development methodology used to create the software to perform the missions and compares the student experience from last year to this one.…”

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Delivering software engineering education through LEGO robotics

Weissberger

Qureshi

2014

2014 9th International Conference on Computer Science &Amp; Education

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The number of software engineering jobs is expected to grow faster than all other jobs over the next decade.STEM education is an important initiative to encourage young students to develop the skills they require to succeed in these positions. The First Lego League sponsors annual tournaments in which students must build and program a robot to accomplish various tasks in order to score points. Previously, the students had not used any process or documentation when developing the programs to rnn on the robot. This competition provides an opportunity to instrnct the students in the benefits of using a formalized process that is essential in many software engineering projects commonly encountered in industry.

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“…Several studies have been done to detail how using Lego robotics can assist in engineering education. Some studies were done at the K-12 level [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12], while others were done at the college level [13][14][15][16][17]. In most cases, there was a lack of a software process when developing the programs to run on the robot.…”

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Delivering software engineering education through LEGO robotics

Weissberger

Qureshi

2014

2014 9th International Conference on Computer Science &Amp; Education

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“…LEGO Mindstorms' programming environment (LSOFT) is in visual programming environment, which novice users can easily adopt the programming skills for robot. User without any programming skills or knowledge on robots can easily learn to use LEGO because visual programming provided by LEGO is fun and simple [2].…”

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Programming LEGO mindstorms NXT with visual programming

Kim

Jeon

2007

2007 International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems

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Lego Company has made a programmable robot set named Mindstorms NXT(NXT). This set comes with several types of sensors, motor, and programmable brick. The NXT set is provided with visual programming environment. Novice programmer can easily make a program for robot using this visual programming environment. The software of NXT is based on National Instruments' Lab VIEW. Also, Microsoft developed a platform called Microsoft Robotics Studio(MSRS) which is aimed to support all types of robot. MSRS also provides visual programming environment named Visual Programming Language(MVPL). Both programming environment are in user friendly interface which programmers just have to drag an icon and release it on the main program screen to use it. Fluent knowledge on programming is needed to work with robot and this affects novice user to restrain to study robotics. However, visual programming can reduce the hesitation of novice user to start programming robots. In this paper, MSRS VPL programming environment and NXT programming environment was used to run the same task using the same robot. Characteristics, merits, and demerits of the each environment was compared and evaluated to introduce a guideline for an efficient method to learn robot using visual programming.

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“…They programmed RCX as their documentation and showed many different types of robot that could be used. All students in this course were satisfied because they can have fun and learn at the same time [1].…”

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“…It is a traditional way to educate C language but it is also limited and fixed. With the RCX, we can download program to it and look at the program running in a robot, which is more interesting compared with the monitor based outputs [1].…”

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Educating C Language using LEGO mindstorms Robotic Invention System 2.0

Kim¹,

Jeon²

Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006. ICRA 2006.

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A robot highly motivates students and it is one of the best ways to connect students with the technology. LEGO created a set called Robotic Invention System. This system helps students to understand the technology of both robot and programming language. It also improves creativeness by building and controlling the robot. This paper will propose the idea on educating C language to students using Robotic Invention System 2.0.

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Learn how to develop software using the toy LEGO Mindstorms

Cited by 23 publications

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Delivering software engineering education through LEGO robotics

Delivering software engineering education through LEGO robotics

Programming LEGO mindstorms NXT with visual programming

Educating C Language using LEGO mindstorms Robotic Invention System 2.0

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