Deployment of Remotely-Accessible Robotics Laboratory

Petrovi, Pavel; Balogh, Richard

doi:10.3991/ijoe.v8is2.1958

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“…A number of testbeds have originated in the educational domain. For example, the Robotic Programming Network (RPN) [2] makes a single humanoid robot remotely accessible while Robotnacka [12] provides access to three mobile robots. A comprehensive overview of other educational testbeds can be found in [4].…”

Section: Educational Testbedsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…successfully charged its battery through the wireless chargers. 12 Out of a total of 111, 117, and 180 autonomous charge cycles, manual intervention was only required twice in the first experiment and once in the second, because a robots onboard control software froze. The success rate of the autonomous charging system was therefore 98.1%, 99.1%, and 100%, respectively.…”

Section: A Long-term Operationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Robotarium: A remotely accessible swarm robotics research testbed

Pickem¹,

Paul²,

Wang³

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

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Abstract-This paper describes the Robotarium -a remotely accessible, multi-robot research facility. The impetus behind the Robotarium is that multi-robot testbeds constitute an integral and essential part of the multi-robot research cycle, yet they are expensive, complex, and time-consuming to develop, operate, and maintain. These resource constraints, in turn, limit access for large groups of researchers and students, which is what the Robotarium is remedying by providing users with remote access to a state-of-the-art multi-robot test facility. This paper details the design and operation of the Robotarium and discusses the considerations one must take when making complex hardware remotely accessible. In particular, safety must be built into the system already at the design phase without overly constraining what coordinated control programs users can upload and execute, which calls for minimally invasive safety routines with provable performance guarantees.

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Section: Educational Testbedsmentioning

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Section: A Long-term Operationmentioning

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The Robotarium: A remotely accessible swarm robotics research testbed

Pickem¹,

Paul²,

Wang³

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

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“…Force/torque control capabilities are missing as well. The lab will be moved to a new 9 The source code of the path planning project can be retrieved at https: //github.com/KITrobotics/rll_path_planning_project 10 A video showing a selection of six job executions, that were submitted by six different participants, can be found at https://rll.ipr.kit. edu/videos/path_planning.mp4 11 A time-lapse video of the experiment can be viewed at https:// rll.ipr.kit.edu/videos/timelapse.mp4.…”

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“…In recent years, the development of remote robotics labs with stationary robots ceased and mobile robot testbeds became popular, especially with multiple robots. The PR2 Remote Lab [7] gives access to a PR2 personal robot, the RPN provides a NAO humanoid for remote access and the Robotarium [8], SyRoTek [9] and Robotnačka [10] deploy small wheeled robots. The PR2 Remote Lab [7] and the Robotarium [8] have a research and development focus, while the RPN [11], SyRoTek [9] and Robotnačka [10] target online education.…”

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“…The path planning project was designed using the Robot 8 The source code for both projects is available at the following links: https://gitlab.ipr.kit.edu/rll/tower_of_ hanoi, https://gitlab.ipr.kit.edu/rll/greetings Learning Lab SDK 9 and the Robot Learning Lab API was integrated into the Udacity online student workspace. Over the course of one month, students were able to submit their code and retrieve data of their jobs 10 . For different start and goal poses, leaderboards in the online workspace ranked submissions according to the time the planning algorithms needed to transport the grasp object from start to goal.…”

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Robotics Education and Research at Scale: A Remotely Accessible Robotics Development Platform

Wiedmeyer

Mende

Hartmann

et al. 2019

2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

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This paper introduces the KUKA Robot Learning Lab at KIT -a remotely accessible robotics testbed. The motivation behind the laboratory is to make state-of-the-art industrial lightweight robots more accessible for education and research. Such expensive hardware is usually not available to students or less privileged researchers to conduct experiments. This paper describes the design and operation of the Robot Learning Lab and discusses the challenges that one faces when making experimental robot cells remotely accessible. Especially safety and security must be ensured, while giving users as much freedom as possible when developing programs to control the robots. A fully automated and efficient processing pipeline for experiments makes the lab suitable for a large amount of users and allows a high usage rate of the robots.

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Smart Education in CS: A Case Study

Štuikys

2015

Smart Learning Objects for Smart Education in Computer Science

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Today, computer science (CS) is regarded as a fundamental course (similarly to mathematics, physics, etc.), which is delivered in both universities and schools. Its importance has been recognized far ago because it is a source of the primary and fundamental knowledge needed for our lives and activities, which are highly penetrated by the use of computers, the Internet and other modern technologies. On the other hand, CS can be also seen as an interdisciplinary course, for example, with respect to its relation to robotics and e-learning domains. Furthermore, combining CS topics with the use of robots in learning adequately, it is possible to make a significant contribution to the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) paradigm, a new interdisciplinary approach to learning and teaching for the twenty-first century. Though we have not considered this paradigm explicitly so far, in fact, by introducing and combining two novel approaches, smart LOs and robot-based smart educational environments, we have paved a way for researching and studying the STEM approach too. But first, we need to show how smart LOs and smart educational environments interact among themselves and to approve this interaction in the real learning and teaching setting.Therefore, the aim of this chapter is summative. First, we aim at presenting the real teaching processes based on the use of smart LOs within smart educational environments. Next, we aim at extracting pedagogical and technological attributes and data for evaluating the introduced approach from the methodological, social and technological viewpoints. Finally, we aim at gaining stimuli and new knowledge for future research in CS learning and teaching.As it was done so far, we start with the analysis of the relevant literature.This chapter should be referenced and cited as follows: Vytautas Š tuikys and Renata Burbaitė.

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Deployment of Remotely-Accessible Robotics Laboratory

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The Robotarium: A remotely accessible swarm robotics research testbed

The Robotarium: A remotely accessible swarm robotics research testbed

Robotics Education and Research at Scale: A Remotely Accessible Robotics Development Platform

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