Tailoring a ROS Educational Programming Language Architecture

Tatarian, Karen; Pereira, Samuel Santos; Couceiro, Micael S.; Portugal, David

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97085-1_22

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“…Despite the importance of reactivity and low latency in robot control, ROS itself is not a real-time operating system. For this instance, ROS is an important, free and open-source tool in the robotics field, being widely used for makers, researchers and in the industry, and it is integrated into sundry simulators such as, Gazebo, Webots, MORSE, V-REP and others (https://www.ros.org/, accessed on 8 June 2021) [35,36,43,44,49,50,52,53,75,77,87,[107][108][109][110][111][112].…”

Section: Robot Operating System-rosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systematic Literature Review of Realistic Simulators Applied in Educational Robotics Context

Camargo

Gonçalves

Conde-González

et al. 2021

Sensors

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This paper presents a systematic literature review (SLR) about realistic simulators that can be applied in an educational robotics context. These simulators must include the simulation of actuators and sensors, the ability to simulate robots and their environment. During this systematic review of the literature, 559 articles were extracted from six different databases using the Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes, Context (PICOC) method. After the selection process, 50 selected articles were included in this review. Several simulators were found and their features were also analyzed. As a result of this process, four realistic simulators were applied in the review’s referred context for two main reasons. The first reason is that these simulators have high fidelity in the robots’ visual modeling due to the 3D rendering engines and the second reason is because they apply physics engines, allowing the robot’s interaction with the environment.

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Section: Robot Operating System-rosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systematic Literature Review of Realistic Simulators Applied in Educational Robotics Context

Camargo

Gonçalves

Conde-González

et al. 2021

Sensors

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“…Coblox [136] Blockly Programming ABB's industrial robots. ROS educational 4 [147] Snap! Manipulate ROS-enabled platforms.…”

Section: Name Metatool Topicmentioning

confidence: 99%

DRAFT-What you always wanted to know but could not find about block-based environments

Merino,

Vinju,

Brand

2021

Preprint

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Block-based environments are visual programming environments, which are becoming more and more popular because of their ease of use. The ease of use comes thanks to their intuitive graphical representation and structural metaphors (jigsaw-like puzzles) to display valid combinations of language constructs to the users. Part of the current popularity of block-based environments is thanks to Scratch.As a result they are often associated with tools for children or young learners. However, it is unclear how these types of programming environments are developed and used in general. So we conducted a systematic literature review on block-based environments by studying 152 papers published between 2014 and 2020, and a non-systematic tool review of 32 block-based environments. In particular, we provide a helpful inventory of block-based editors for end-users on different topics and domains. Likewise, we focused on identifying the main components of block-based environments, how they are engineered, and how they are used. This survey should be equally helpful for language engineering researchers and language engineers alike. CCS Concepts: • General and reference → Surveys and overviews; • Software and its engineering → Graphical user interface languages; Visual languages; Integrated and visual development environments.

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“…BB DEs such as Scratch, Alice, and Snap! are conquering the market for novice programmers but still need some middleware to interface with robotic platforms [37]. Companies are producing their robotic platforms by adopting Scratch as their BB DE [38].…”

Section: Development Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning Robotics: a Review

Ribeiro

Lopes

2020

Curr Robot Rep

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Purpose of Review With the growing interest for STEM/STEAM, new robotic platforms are being created with different characteristics, extras, and options. There are so many diverse solutions that it is difficult for a teacher/student to choose the ideal one. This paper intends to provide an analysis of the most common robotic platforms existent on the market. The same is happening regarding robotic events all around the world, with objectives so distinctive, and with complexity from easy to very difficult. This paper also describes some of those events which occur in many countries. Recent Findings As the literature is showing, there has been a visible effort from schools and educators to teach robotics from very young ages, not only because robotics is the future, but also as a tool to teach STEM/STEAM areas. But as time progresses, the options for the right platforms also evolve making difficult to choose amongst them. Some authors opt to first choose a robotic platform and carry on from there. Others choose first a development environment and then look for which robots can be programmed from it. Summary An actual review on learning robotics is here presented, firstly showing some literature background on history and trends of robotic platforms used in education in general, the different development environments for robotics, and finishing on competitions and events. A comprehensive characterization list of robotic platforms along with robotic competitions and events is also shown.

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Tailoring a ROS Educational Programming Language Architecture

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Systematic Literature Review of Realistic Simulators Applied in Educational Robotics Context

Systematic Literature Review of Realistic Simulators Applied in Educational Robotics Context

DRAFT-What you always wanted to know but could not find about block-based environments

Learning Robotics: a Review

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