Blockly goes to work: Block-based programming for industrial robots

Weintrop, David; Shepherd, David; Francis, Patrick; Franklin, Diana

doi:10.1109/blocks.2017.8120406

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“…in a production plant) would see their daily tasks facilitated and streamlined, and even their work would become more enjoyable. The potential of VPLs in the context of industrial robots is also considered in [32] and [33]. The fact that a VPL may not be as flexible as a textual language is not necessarily a disadvantage when the tasks to be performed by the robots in an industrial environment are not excessively complex, which is usually the case.…”

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A Study on the Suitability of Visual Languages for Non-Expert Robot Programmers

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A visual programming language allows users and developers to create programs by manipulating program elements graphically. Several studies have shown the benefits of visual languages for learning purposes and their applicability to robot programming. However, at present, there are not enough comparative studies on the suitability of textual and visual languages for this purpose. In this paper, we study if, as with a textual language, the use of a visual language could also be suitable in the context of robot programming and, if so, what the main advantages of using a visual language would be. For our experiments, we selected a sample of 60 individuals among students with adequate knowledge of procedural programming, that was divided into three groups. For the first group of 20 students, a learning scenario based on a textual objectoriented language was used for programming a specific commercial robotic ball with sensing, wireless communication, and output capabilities, whereas for the second and the third group, two learning scenarios based on visual languages were used for programming the robot. After taking a course for programming the robot in the corresponding learning scenario, each group was evaluated by completing three programming exercises related to the robot features (i.e. motion, lighting, and collision detection). Our results show that the students that worked with visual languages perceived a higher clarity level in their understanding of the course exposition, and a higher enjoyment level in the use of the programming environment. Moreover, they also achieved an overall better mark. INDEX TERMS Authoring systems, educational robots, engineering education, interdisciplinary projects, visual programming.

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“…Moreover, various studies show the applicability of VPLs to robot programming [30]- [32]. However, at present, there are not enough comparative studies on the suitability of textual languages and VPLs for robot programming, although some research has already been conducted on this [33].…”

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A Study on the Suitability of Visual Languages for Non-Expert Robot Programmers

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“…Conforme [Kelleher and Pausch 2005], a programação baseada em blocos (PB) procura abstrair a sintaxe de forma que os estudantes iniciantes mantenham seu foco apenas na semântica. Por isso, esse paradigmaé um meio eficiente de atrair estudantes para o aprendizado do PC [Weintrop et al 2017].…”

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“…Esse paradigma vem sendo adotado por várias metodologias, desde programação de histórias, jogos, vídeos até a programação de robôs. [Weintrop et al 2017] [Kelleher and Pausch 2005].…”

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Programação em Blocos Aplicada no Ensino do Pensamento Computacional: Um Mapeamento Sistemático

Sousa¹,

Farias²,

Viana³

2020

Anais Do XXXI Simpósio Brasileiro De Informática Na Educação (SBIE 2020)

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Nos últimos anos, o Pensamento Computacional (PC) vem ganhando destaque no cenário mundial e, muitas pesquisas apontam o paradigma de Programação em Blocos (PB) como uma das principais alternativas de ensino do PC para pessoas que não tenham experiência com programação. Nesse sentido, este trabalho propõe a realização de uma Mapeamento Sistemático da Literatura (MSL) sobre o uso de PB no ensino do PC. No decorrer do MSL foram reveladas algumas informações importantes, como: em quais etapas da educação formal os estudos são mais aplicados, quais são as ferramentas mais usadas, quais os tipos de avaliação adotadas e em quais países esse tipo de estudo se concentra.

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“…Although Blockly is widely used in educational contexts, there are also study cases of Blockly applied in commercial / industrial situations. Weintrop et al [18], for example, presents the usage of Blockly applied to industrial robotics programming. They argue that they conducted a small-scale study and observed that Blockly enabled "adults with no prior programming experience successfully programming a virtual robot to accomplish a pick and place task.…”

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BIPES: Block Based Integrated Platform for Embedded Systems

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This article proposes the BIPES, a Block based Integrated Platform for Embedded Systems, including its architecture, design and validation results. BIPES is an open source software and service that is freely available through the website http://www.bipes.net.br and has been conceived from our experience of several years teaching and developing embedded systems and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. It allows anyone to quickly and reliably design, program, build, deploy and monitor embedded systems, IoT devices and applications using blocks or Python based programming. It is fully based on web environment, so absolutely no software installation is needed on the client developer machine. In this way, a tablet, a netbook, a Chromebook or any other device can be used to program and test several types of devices. Mainly, it relies on MicroPython or CircuitPython, WebREPL, WebSockets, Web Serial API, HTML, JavaScript and Google Blockly to allow no-code programming (blocks) to be translated into Python code and then deployed to the target board. Moreover, it does not require server side processing, so it can be deployed as a Progressive Web Application (PWA), allowing it to be used even when the computer is offline. It is compatible with several low cost boards such as: mBed, BBC micro:bit, ESP8266, ESP32 and Raspberry Pi using only a web browser and without the need to install any software on the device where the user develops the programming.

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Blockly goes to work: Block-based programming for industrial robots

Cited by 64 publications

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A Study on the Suitability of Visual Languages for Non-Expert Robot Programmers

A Study on the Suitability of Visual Languages for Non-Expert Robot Programmers

Programação em Blocos Aplicada no Ensino do Pensamento Computacional: Um Mapeamento Sistemático

BIPES: Block Based Integrated Platform for Embedded Systems

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