Teaching freshmen design, creativity and programming with LEGOs and Labview

Wang, E.

doi:10.1109/fie.2001.963943

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“…al. 2001;Wang 2001;Wang & Wang 2001). When used in conjunction with the Lego RCX, such a solution satisfies our price point and mechanical empowerment constraints only.…”

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The Robotic Autonomy Mobile Robotics Course: Robot Design, Curriculum Design and Educational Assessment

et al. 2005

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Robotic Autonomy is a seven-week, hands-on introduction to robotics designed for high school students. The course presents a broad survey of robotics, beginning with mechanism and electronics and ending with robot behavior, navigation and remote teleoperation. During the summer of 2002, Robotic Autonomy was taught to twenty eight students at Carnegie Mellon West in cooperation with NASA/Ames (Moffett Field, CA). The educational robot and course curriculum were the result of a ground-up design effort chartered to develop an effective and low-cost robot for secondary level education and home use. Cooperation between Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, Gogoco, LLC. and Acroname Inc. yielded notable innovations including a fast-build robot construction kit, indoor/outdoor terrainability, CMOS vision-centered sensing, back-EMF motor speed control and a Java-based robot programming interface. In conjunction with robot and curriculum design, the authors at the Robotics Institute and the University of Pittsburgh's Learning Research and Development Center planned a methodology for evaluating the educational efficacy of Robotic Autonomy, implementing both formative and summative evaluations of progress as well as an indepth, one week ethnography to identify micro-genetic mechanisms of learning that would inform the broader evaluation. This article describes the robot and curriculum design processes and then the educational analysis methodology and statistically significant results, demonstrating the positive impact of Robotic Autonomy on student learning well beyond the boundaries of specific technical concepts in robotics.

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“…al. 2001;Wang 2001;Wang & Wang 2001). When used in conjunction with the Lego RCX, such a solution satisfies our price point and mechanical empowerment constraints only.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…Introductory mechanical engineering students were exposed to the industrial design process through LEGO building exercises at the University of Nevada-Reno in a study conducted by Wang [29]. A course at the U.S.…”

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The Art of the Matter: The Importance of using Art in the College Classroom to Promote Creativity and Reinforce Lessons

Wellman

2012

TOEDUJ

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Art is a valuable learning tool, regardless of discipline, that is often neglected in the college classroom. This article describes an artistic group exercise that required students enrolled in a homicide class to illustrate "warning" posters, depicting various explanations for why people kill. The author explores how this innovative group project enhanced a traditional classroom lecture on the same subject. The assignment was replicated for four semesters. Using the results of a post-assignment survey, the author presents student evaluations of the project, including both quantitative and qualitative responses. Students rated the assignment as both enjoyable (average score of 6.42 out of 7) and beneficial to their retention of course material (average score of 6.06 out of 7.0). Based on student feedback, this article serves as a call to higher education professionals, encouraging the implementation of creativity in traditional curriculum. The detailed activity within provides a blueprint that any professors can tailor to fit their given course topic and discipline.

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“…They need an overview of fuzzy logic in engineering practice and exposure to the environment that the subject is applied [2]. Problem based approach and robots have been shown by a number of researchers to be motivating and beneficial in science and technology education [3].…”

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Fuzzy Logic Controlled Miniature LEGO Robot for Undergraduate Training System

Azlan

Zainudin

Yusuf

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2007 2nd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications

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Abstract-Fuzzy logic enables designers to control complex systems more effectively than traditional approaches as it provides a simple way to arrive at a definite conclusion upon ambiguous, imprecise or noisy information. In this paper, we describe the development of two miniature LEGO robots, which are the line following and the light searching mobile robots to provide a better understanding of fuzzy logic control theory and real life application for an undergraduate training system. This study is divided into two parts. In the first part, an object sorter robot is built to perform pick and place task to load different colour objects on a fuzzy logic controlled line following robot which then carries the preloaded objects to a goal by following a white line. In the second part, an intelligent fuzzy logic controlled light searching robot with the capability to navigate in a maze is developed. All of the robots are constructed by using the LEGO Mindstorms kit. Interactive C programming language is used to program fuzzy logic robots. Experimental results show that the robots has successfully track the predefined path and navigate towards light source under the influence of the fuzzy logic controller; and therefore can be used as a training system in undergraduate fuzzy logic class.

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Teaching freshmen design, creativity and programming with LEGOs and Labview

Cited by 34 publications

References 4 publications

The Robotic Autonomy Mobile Robotics Course: Robot Design, Curriculum Design and Educational Assessment

The Robotic Autonomy Mobile Robotics Course: Robot Design, Curriculum Design and Educational Assessment

The Art of the Matter: The Importance of using Art in the College Classroom to Promote Creativity and Reinforce Lessons

Fuzzy Logic Controlled Miniature LEGO Robot for Undergraduate Training System

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