Virtual Reality Robotics System for Education and Training

Hurtado, Carlos Vázquez; Valerio, Alejandro Rojo; Sanchez, Luis Ruvalcaba

doi:10.1109/cerma.2010.98

Cited by 9 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 10 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Figure 3 illustrates some of such applications. [78], CRS robotic arm [79], robotic cell for shoe-sole gluing [80] and industrial picking robot [81].…”

Section: Engineering Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Virtual Reality and Its Applications in Education: Survey

et al. 2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the education process, students face problems with understanding due to the complexity, necessity of abstract thinking and concepts. More and more educational centres around the world have started to introduce powerful new technology-based tools that help meet the needs of the diverse student population. Over the last several years, virtual reality (VR) has moved from being the purview of gaming to professional development. It plays an important role in teaching process, providing an interesting and engaging way of acquiring information. What follows is an overview of the big trend, opportunities and concerns associated with VR in education. We present new opportunities in VR and put together the most interesting, recent virtual reality applications used in education in relation to several education areas such as general, engineering and health-related education. Additionally, this survey contributes by presenting methods for creating scenarios and different approaches for testing and validation. Lastly, we conclude and discuss future directions of VR and its potential to improve the learning experience.Information 2019, 10, 318 2 of 20 must be carried out under supervision; therefore, students cannot self-configure lab equipment, experience states of emergency or effects of misconfiguration which may lead to equipment damage. Moreover, there is no possibility to practice and catch up outside the laboratory schedule. Currently, the solutions are modern technologies such as online courses [8,9], blended learning [10-13], different computer-based platforms [14-18] and many others, which allow the students to repeat several times the same topic, make mistakes and learn from them. Numerous examples of hardware and software which have been successful in educational processes indicate that edtech industry can improve learning outcomes for the majority of students [19]. More and more educational centres around the world are starting to introduce powerful new technology tools that help them to meet the needs of diverse student populations. Traditional books are being replaced by digital instructional content (especially from open educational resources) [20]. Notebooks, tablets or cell phones with dedicated application have replaced classical copybooks [21]. Distance [22] and personalised learning [23] are used to tailor education to each student's academic strengths, weaknesses, preferences and goals.It is well known that the use of information and communication technologies have been found to improve student attitudes towards learning [24][25][26][27]. It is a rapidly growing field of research, continually developing and looking for new technological solutions. Over the last several years, Virtual Reality (VR), which provides an interactive computer-generated environment, has moved from being the purview of the gaming to the professional development such as military, psychology, medicine and teaching applications.In 1987, Jaron Lanier, together with Steve Bryson, formulated the first definition of VR, which they desc...

show abstract

“…Figure 3 illustrates some of such applications. [78], CRS robotic arm [79], robotic cell for shoe-sole gluing [80] and industrial picking robot [81].…”

Section: Engineering Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A more interesting approach was presented in [79], where the authors created a VR system for robotics education and training. The application was equipped with both visual and haptic feedback based interaction and contained a built-in physics engine.…”

Section: Engineering Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual Reality and Its Applications in Education: Survey

et al. 2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Rezultatele acestui studiu au indicat că integrarea roboticii în sistemul educațional va spori, fără îndoială, eficacitatea predării și învățării educației STEM. Robotica este un concept important în STEM și prin utilizarea realității virtuale utilizatorii pot interacționa adecvat cu medii de învățare tridimensionale (3D) în timp real, folosind simțurile și abilitățile naturale [5]. S-a dovedit că robotica este un instrument excelent pentru predarea științei, ingineriei și categoriilor de diferențe tehnologice de studenți [6].…”

Section: Concluziiunclassified

Robotics in STEAM education

VASCAN¹

2022

Acta et commentationes: Șt. Educației

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Educational robotics being a branch of robotics that is applied in education, encourages abstract learning and complex concepts, tries, through a methodology based on the basic principles of robotics, to promote creativity, use of technology and mathematics in an interdisciplinary way, principles common and STEAM education. The article describes the common directions of these directions, presents some aspects related to the teaching of Educational Robotics, a selection of educational robots that can be used in teaching the subject Educational Robotics and Open Roberta Lab programming environment that allows the study of said discipline and without presence robot physics.

show abstract

“…MATLAB is a common tool used to develop the mentioned toolboxes and other custom educational resources used on engineering courses [31][32][33][34], but they are non-immersive and lacks real-time rendering as it is an interpreted language not designed to provide fast 3D rendering capabilities and they tend to be used to teach only fundamental concepts of robotics. There are also simulation software that can be used for teaching [35][36][37][38][39]. The toolboxes and simulators found in the literature can be used to teach robotics but they are very limited compared to an industrial robotic simulation software with advanced capabilities such as collision detection, easy-to-use cell design interface, trajectory visualisation and checking, connection to physical robot, robot program generation that works on the real robot etc.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Low-Cost Immersive Virtual Reality System for Teaching Robotic Manipulators Programming

et al. 2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Laboratory tasks are a powerful pedagogical strategy for developing competences in science and engineering degrees, making students understand in a practical way the theoretical topics explained in the classroom. However, performing experiments in real conditions is usually expensive in terms of time, money and energy, as it requires expensive infrastructures that are generally difficult to maintain in good conditions. To overcome this problem, virtual reality has proven to be a powerful tool to achieve sustainability, making it easy to update laboratories without the need to acquire new equipment. Moreover, the ability to introduce practical knowledge into classrooms without leaving them, makes virtual laboratories capable of simulating typical operating environments as well as extreme situations in the operation of different devices. A typical subject in which students can benefit from the use of virtual laboratories is robotics. In this work we will develop an immersive virtual reality (VR) pedagogical simulator of industrial robotic arms for engineering students. With the proposed system, students will know the effects of their own designed trajectories on several different robotic arms and cell environments without having to buy all of them and being safe of damaging the cell components. The simulation will be checking for collisions of the elements in the scene and alert the student when they happen. This can be achieved with a robotic simulator, but the integration with immersive VR is intended to help students better understand robotics. Moreover, even having a real robotic arm available for students, with this proposed VR method, all the students have the opportunity to manage and learn his own version of the robotic cell, without waiting times generated by having less robotic arms than students in classroom.

show abstract

Virtual Reality Robotics System for Education and Training

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Virtual Reality and Its Applications in Education: Survey

Virtual Reality and Its Applications in Education: Survey

Robotics in STEAM education

A Low-Cost Immersive Virtual Reality System for Teaching Robotic Manipulators Programming

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About