Applied Social Robotics—Building Interactive Robots with LEGO Mindstorms

Kipp, Andreas; Schneider, Sebastian

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42975-5_3

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“…For the undergraduate level, Álvarez and Larrañaga (2016) present the results of a two-year experiment using LEGO Mindstorms robots in the teaching of basic programming with around 100 students, evidencing a significate improvement in the motivation and perception of the students in the learning process. Kipp and Schneider (2017) describe how to create a social robotics class where students interact with LEGO Mindstorms EV3. Additionally, Ding et al (2017) and Wu et al (2018) use LEGO Mindstorms NXT to teach control subjects such as the design of a PID controller for line tracking (Ding et al, 2017), and dynamic systems (analysis of first and second order systems) and the design of a PD controller (Wu et al, 2018).…”

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Physical visualization of math concepts using LEGO Mindstorms

Suárez-Gómez

Peréz-Holguín

2020

J. Technol. Sci. Educ.

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Educational robotics has become one of the most effective methods to teach STEM concepts in a practical and didactic way at all educational level. In this context, the LEGO Mindstorms robotic platforms have been widely used due to their versatility ease of use and modularity. Despite this, most of the papers focus on K-12 and undergraduate levels, with little information reported in the literature about educational experiences at the graduate level. This article deals with the use of educational robotics for the teaching of mathematical concepts at the graduate level, and more specifically on the physical visualization of metrics (Euclidean, Taxicab, and Infinity), and the convergence of Cauchy's succession using a mobile robots LEGO Mindstorms NXT. The educational experience was applied to a group of graduate students who offered good comments on this type of educational activity and its usefulness to understand the mathematical concepts addressed. It was observed that this type of educational experiences motivates students to use mathematical concepts in interdisciplinary problems and encourages them to understand their functionality and application in the real world.

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Section: Application Of Lego Mindstorms In Educational Roboticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Physical visualization of math concepts using LEGO Mindstorms

Suárez-Gómez

Peréz-Holguín

2020

J. Technol. Sci. Educ.

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“…This technique is very fast for RT applications, except when the vehicle is trapped in a deadlock (a local minimum of the potential function). For this reason, this technique is currently being investigated in the fields of mobile robotics [6], intelligent vehicles [7,8] and social robotics [9][10][11].…”

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“…To demonstrate the capabilities of the proposed approach, a harmonic potential field based on the flow theory is used in simulated complex environments as well as in RT navigation experiments with a LEGO ® MINDSTORMS robot in environments with static obstacles and variable start and goal robot configurations. A LEGO ® MINDSTORMS robot was also selected as the experimental platform because it is a commonly used device in teaching social robotics interactions [9]. This paper is organized as follows: Section 2 first details the potential flow theory to obtain harmonic functions by means of the Poisson equation.…”

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Real-Time Path Planning Based on Harmonic Functions under a Proper Generalized Decomposition-Based Framework

Montés

Chinesta

Mora

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Sensors

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This paper presents a real-time global path planning method for mobile robots using harmonic functions, such as the Poisson equation, based on the Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD) of these functions. The main property of the proposed technique is that the computational cost is negligible in real-time, even if the robot is disturbed or the goal is changed. The main idea of the method is the off-line generation, for a given environment, of the whole set of paths from any start and goal configurations of a mobile robot, namely the computational vademecum, derived from a harmonic potential field in order to use it on-line for decision-making purposes. Up until now, the resolution of the Laplace or Poisson equations has been based on traditional numerical techniques unfeasible for real-time calculation. This drawback has prevented the extensive use of harmonic functions in autonomous navigation, despite their powerful properties. The numerical technique that reverses this situation is the Proper Generalized Decomposition. To demonstrate and validate the properties of the PGD-vademecum in a potential-guided path planning framework, both real and simulated implementations have been developed. Simulated scenarios, such as an L-Shaped corridor and a benchmark bug trap, are used, and a real navigation of a LEGO®MINDSTORMS robot running in static environments with variable start and goal configurations is shown. This device has been selected due to its computational and memory-restricted capabilities, and it is a good example of how its properties could help the development of social robots.

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Applied Social Robotics—Building Interactive Robots with LEGO Mindstorms

Cited by 2 publications

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Physical visualization of math concepts using LEGO Mindstorms

Physical visualization of math concepts using LEGO Mindstorms

Real-Time Path Planning Based on Harmonic Functions under a Proper Generalized Decomposition-Based Framework

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