An Experience Report on Teaching Programming and Computational Thinking to Elementary Level Children Using Lego Robotics Education Kit

Chaudhary, Vaibhav; Agrawal, Vikesh; Sureka, Pragya; Sureka, Ashish

doi:10.1109/t4e.2016.016

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“…Mona translates the received IR signal intensity to estimate the distance and bearing of the obstacle and neighbouring robots in the case of a swarm scenario. The distance is calculated from the amplitude of the received IR shown in (3). As Mona's IR sensors are placed symmetrically at a known angle, the relative angular position of the obstacle can be estimated using (4): where φ is the estimated angular position, ψ i is the angular distance between ith sensor and the 'top' of the robot (IR-1 in Fig.…”

Section: Sensor Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The basic concept of a robot is something that students of all ages and abilities can understand. The learning activities that can be undertaken span the full range of abilities, from entry-level primary school students [2,3] through to university undergraduates (UG) and postgraduates (PG) [4,5]. Robots are also being used for non-technical learning, especially in support of those with learning disabilities [6].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mona: an Affordable Open-Source Mobile Robot for Education and Research

Arvin

Espinosa

Bird

et al. 2018

J Intell Robot Syst

103

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Mobile robots are playing a significant role in Higher Education science and engineering teaching, as they offer a flexible platform to explore and teach a wide-range of topics such as mechanics, electronics and software. Unfortunately the widespread adoption is limited by their high cost and the complexity of user interfaces and programming tools. To overcome these issues, a new affordable, adaptable and easy-to-use robotic platform is proposed. Mona is a low-cost, open-source and open-hardware mobile robot, which has been developed to be compatible with a number of standard programming environments. The robot has been successfully used for both education and research at The University of Manchester, UK.

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Section: Sensor Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mona: an Affordable Open-Source Mobile Robot for Education and Research

Arvin

Espinosa

Bird

et al. 2018

J Intell Robot Syst

103

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“…Arduino boards appeared some years ago, in an effort to work around the closed-platforms limitation, providing cheaper and more adapted robotic platforms. This is a free hardware board that allows a wide variety of low-cost robotic components to be added [21,[25][26][27][28]. Thus, beginning with a basic and affordable Arduino platform, teachers and students can freely adapt it to their necessities, developing an effective and low-cost robot, as described in [29][30][31][32].…”

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confidence: 99%

PiBot: An Open Low-Cost Robotic Platform with Camera for STEM Education

Vega

Plaza

2018

Electronics

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This paper presents a robotic platform, PiBot, which was developed to improve the teaching of robotics with vision to secondary students. Its computational core is the Raspberry Pi 3 controller board, and the greatest novelty of this prototype is the support developed for the powerful camera mounted on board, the PiCamera. An open software infrastructure written in Python language was implemented so that the student may use this camera as the main sensor of the robotic platform. Furthermore, higher-level commands were provided to enhance the learning outcome for beginners. In addition, a PiBot 3D printable model and the counterpart for the Gazebo simulator were also developed and fully supported. They are publicly available so that students and schools without the physical robot or that cannot afford to obtain one, can nevertheless practice, learn and teach Robotics using these open platforms: DIY-PiBot and/or simulated-PiBot.

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“…Nevertheless, Arduino boards appeared some years ago, in an effort to work around the closed-platforms limitation, providing cheaper and more adapted robotic platforms. This is a free hardware board which lets add a wide variety of low-cost robotic components ( [16], [17], [15], [18], [19]). Thus, beginning with a basic and affordable Arduino platform, teachers and students can freely adapt it to their necessities, developing an effective and low-cost robot as described in ([20], [21], [22], [23]).…”

Section: Educational Robotsmentioning

confidence: 99%

PiBot: An Open Low-Cost Robotic Platform With Camera for STEM Education

Vega¹,

Plaza²

2018

Preprint

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This paper presents the robotic platform, PiBot, that has been developed and that is aimed at improving the teaching of Robotics with vision to secondary students. Its computational core is the Raspberry Pi 3 controller board, and the greatest novelty of this prototype is the support developed for the powerful camera mounted on board, the PiCamera. An open software infrastructure written in Python language was implemented so that the student may use this camera, or even a WebCam, as the main sensor of this robotic platform. Also, higher level commands have been provided to enhance the learning outcome for beginners. In addition, a PiBot 3D printable model and the counterpart for the Gazebo simulator were also developed and fully supported. They are publicly available so that students and educational centers that do not have the physical robot or can not afford the costs of these, can nevertheless practice and learn or teach Robotics using these open platforms: DIY-PiBot and/or simulated-PiBot.

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An Experience Report on Teaching Programming and Computational Thinking to Elementary Level Children Using Lego Robotics Education Kit

Cited by 58 publications

References 5 publications

Mona: an Affordable Open-Source Mobile Robot for Education and Research

Mona: an Affordable Open-Source Mobile Robot for Education and Research

PiBot: An Open Low-Cost Robotic Platform with Camera for STEM Education

PiBot: An Open Low-Cost Robotic Platform With Camera for STEM Education

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