Proposal of educational environments with mobile robots

Alves, Silas Franco dos Reis; Filho, Homero Fonseca; Pegoraro, Renê; Caldeira, Marco; Rosário, João Maurício; Yonezawa, Wilson Massashiro

doi:10.1109/ramech.2011.6070493

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“…Teamwork and multidisciplinary team skills are also enforced [11]. Furthermore, most people learn more easily when hands-on practice is involved in learning activities [12], therefore robotics can be used as a pedagogical tool that offers a "learning by doing" experience [3], [13]. In what follows, several low-cost robots built for these educational purposes are described.…”

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“…Although robots are a great educational tool, Alves et al warn that the high cost of robots can prevent their being used in classrooms [3], [14]. In the same way, Lumsden and Ortega-Sanchez say that there is a lack of inexpensive and flexible mobile robotic 0018-9359/$31.00 © 2012 IEEE platforms [15].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Alves et al, robotics can be used as motivating element [3], and Rawat and Massiha verify that student feedback after robotic classes is "overwhelmingly positive" [5]. Alves et al also relate that students find building robot prototypes a motivating activity [3].…”

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Increasing Students' Interest With Low-Cost CellBots

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Abstract-This paper introduces the use of a flexible and affordable educational robot specifically developed for the practical experimentation inherent to technological disciplines. The robot has been designed to be reconfigurable and extendible, serving as an experimental platform across several undergraduate courses. As most students have a mobile cell phone, this was used as the main control computer for the so-called CellBot, thus avoiding any need to deal with the details of microcontrollers or other embedded computing devices. Assessment results are also presented, based on a pre-and post-survey of student opinion administered to 204 science and engineering students from several universities. Among the conclusions are that 83% of the students prefer to use these low-cost robots as tools to improve their learning of the theory in several disciplines, and 71% of the students stated that they prefer to have their own robot to experiment with, instead of using a didactic kit loaned to them by the university.

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Increasing Students' Interest With Low-Cost CellBots

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“…Mobile robotics in education is a pedagogical tool that promoting active learning and involve multi-disciplinary knowledge [1], [2]. Educators in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) frequently choose robotics system as a subject STEM-focused problem-based learning (PBL) [3].…”

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Implementation of Robot Operating System in Beaglebone Black based Mobile Robot for Obstacle Avoidance Application

Zakaria¹,

Shing²,

Tomari³

2017

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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Abstract-The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a collection of tools, libraries, and conventions that focus on simplifying the task of creating a complex and advanced robotics system. Its standard framework can be shared with another robotics system that has a similar platform and suitable for being introduced as an educational tool in robotics. However, the problems found out in the current robot platform available in the market are expensive and encapsulated. The development of an open source robot platform is encouraged. Therefore, this research is carried out to design and develop an ROS based obstacle avoidance system for existing differential-wheeled mobile robot. The ROS was installed under Ubuntu 14.04 on a Beaglebone Black embedded computer system. Then, the ROS was implemented together with the obstacle avoidance system to establish the communication between program nodes. The mobile robot was then designed and developed to examine the obstacle avoidance application. The debugging process was carried out to check the obstacle avoidance system application based on the communication between nodes. This process is important in examining the message publishing and subscribing from all nodes. The obstacle avoidance mobile robot has been successfully tested where the communication between nodes was running without any problem.

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“…Robotics is a fascinating discipline that easily engages computing students. Educational robots are stimulating and motivating (Soto, Espinace & Mitnik, 2004;Hamblen & Hall, 2004;Alves et al, 2011;Howard & Graham, 2007), there are good reasons for introducing robotics activities very early in course curricula, and this allows students to easily perceive the relationships between undergraduate courses, in their theory and practice.…”

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A Project-based Learning approach for teaching Robotics to Undergraduates

Bada¹,

Laamanen²,

Miiro³

2014

Mak. J. High. Edu.

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In this research we used a project-based learning approach to teach robotics basics to undergraduate business computing students. The course coverage includes basic electronics, robot construction and programming using arduino. Students developed and tested a robot prototype. The project was evaluated using a questionnaire. The evaluation result shows that students developed skills in circuit design, problem-solving and robot development for addressing real world problems and team work. The students had challenges of using limited resources for robot circuit design and construction. The research results indicate that robotics education through project-based learning motivates students to learn and implement computer artefact that addresses real world problems.

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Proposal of educational environments with mobile robots

Cited by 11 publications

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Increasing Students' Interest With Low-Cost CellBots

Increasing Students' Interest With Low-Cost CellBots

Implementation of Robot Operating System in Beaglebone Black based Mobile Robot for Obstacle Avoidance Application

A Project-based Learning approach for teaching Robotics to Undergraduates

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