Proposal of educational environments with mobile robots

Author

Alves, Silas F R ; Filho, Humberto Ferasoli ; Pegoraro, René ; Caldeira, Marco A C ; Rosário, João M. ; Yonezawa, Wilson M.

Author_Institution

Mech. Project Dept., State Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

fYear

2011

fDate

17-19 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

264

Lastpage

269

Abstract

This paper describes an initiative which uses low-cost mobile robots to create robotics courses and learning environment to support the teaching of computing and many other related disciplines. The pursued principle is that lower cost alternatives that can meet the educational needs, since it is accompanied by an environment with friendly software interface. In this sense, the hardware interface was developed to allow the computer to process data from the sensors and actuators of the mobile robot. This architecture is adequate because of the acceptance of students in their use, since the environment is unrolled within a familiar platform to them.

Keywords

actuators; control engineering computing; educational courses; mobile robots; sensors; teaching; user interfaces; actuators; educational environments; hardware interface; learning environment; low-cost mobile robots; robotics courses; sensors; software interface; teaching; Computer architecture; Computers; Educational robots; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM), 2011 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Qingdao

ISSN

2158-2181

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-252-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAMECH.2011.6070493

Filename

6070493