Mobile robot labs

Greenwald, Lloyd; Kopena, Joseph B.

doi:10.1109/mra.2003.1213613

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“…Only the above-mentioned 27 students who carried out their M.Sc. thesis using robotized vehicles took part in the survey willingly (7,9, and 11 students per course offering). The reference point for this study comes from the IEEE-CS/ACM curricular recommendation for Computer Science (CS2008) [15].…”

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“…O VER the last decade, a growing number of projects and initiatives have been dedicated to new educational technologies in robotics education; some representative examples can be found in [1]- [7]. Various educational platforms have been introduced, with a variety of simulators, remote infrastructures, videos, computer applications, and the like.…”

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Industrial-Like Vehicle Platforms for Postgraduate Laboratory Courses on Robotics

2013

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Abstract-The interdisciplinary nature of robotics allows mobile robots to be used successfully in a broad range of courses at the postgraduate level and in Ph.D. research. Practical industrial-like mobile robotic demonstrations encourage students and increase their motivation by providing them with learning benefits not achieved with traditional educational robotic platforms. This paper presents VEGO, an industrial-like modular vehicle platform for robotic education with an appropriate infrastructure that has been demonstrated to be very useful at the postgraduate level. Besides learning engineering concepts, in performing industrial-like exercises, students develop valuable skills such as teamwork and the capacity to solve problems similar to those they may encounter in a real industrial environment. The developed infrastructure represents a valuable platform for robotic education that can be used in many different disciplines as a way to demonstrate how to cope with the difficulties and challenges related to the development of industrial infrastructure systems. The platform evaluation proved its ability to inculcate the expected engineering skills. A novel approach is adopted through the use of multidisciplinary and close-to-industrial-reality platforms developed under an incremental approach and using an open and customizable structure.

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Industrial-Like Vehicle Platforms for Postgraduate Laboratory Courses on Robotics

2013

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“…In addition, platforms such as LEGO Mindstorms provide a simple user interface, but limit flexibility and remain expensive. A variety of designs have been proposed which partially address these problems; however, most remain expensive and are not suitable as semi-disposable kits that can be provided to students [2,[6][7][8][9].…”

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A flexible robotics themed system for teaching basic engineering concepts and skills

Dian

Colic

2013

PCEEA

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The robotics stream of the University of Toronto DEEP summer program consistently attracts numerous motivated high school students. As instructors, we have developed an extensible low cost platform that students can construct and enhance over a sequence of courses.The platform provides an engaging medium to address many aspects of electrical, computer and mechanical engineering while maintaining a robotics theme. These include the theory of electromagnetism, analog and digital circuits, software development and ultimately basic machine learning. Students surveys conducted at the beginning and end of each course were used to gauge student engagement and knowledge before and after the courses and provide evidence that the robotics themed approach is an effective method for teaching a broad spectrum of engineering material.

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“…There has been much interest in achieving educational and research objectives through the use mobile robots (Greenwald and Kopena, 2003). Low-cost robot platforms are widely used and they are usually controlled by some kind of microcontrollers or PC with interface cards.…”

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An Industrial Autonomous Guided Robot

Freitas

Vilela

Ramalho

et al. 2005

IFAC Proceedings Volumes

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There has been much interest on achieving educational and research goals by the use of mobile robot platforms. However these platforms are not usually composed by industrial of the shelf solutions. This paper presents the kind of industrial sensors that can be used in an autonomous mobile robot. The vehicle is supposed to follow a track, make choices on its way respecting visual indications of traffic lights, navigate inside a tunnel and park inside a given area. The original part about this AGV is the implementation by use of available industrial equipment rather than the common PC and/or PICs combination.

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Mobile robot labs

Cited by 46 publications

References 8 publications

Industrial-Like Vehicle Platforms for Postgraduate Laboratory Courses on Robotics

Industrial-Like Vehicle Platforms for Postgraduate Laboratory Courses on Robotics

A flexible robotics themed system for teaching basic engineering concepts and skills

An Industrial Autonomous Guided Robot

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