Enhancement of Robotics Laboratory at Tennessee State University

2010

This paper presents the development of a mobile robotics course at the primarily undergraduate engineering school, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. This course is one of the final courses in the multidisciplinary educational robotics certificate program. The purpose of this course is to use the robot to provide the students with an appreciation of their discipline and how it applies to other disciplines. It is hypothesized that students will gain a more realistic model of their future workplace demographic while also learning about robotics theory and the open areas of robotics research.

Politehnika, 2021

Modern robots have been used in different applications including welding, painting, soldering, assembly of different products and in education. List of applications is getting even longer because robot performance is improving. Faculties are following industries involving robots in their curriculum, while industry is interested in new ideas including new applications and their improvements from the university. Modern robots are user-friendly for programming so the lack of knowledge about robot applications seems to be the main obstacle in their wider implementation. Collaborative robots or cobots are sophisticated robots which could operate with other robots and with workers in the factory. Recent opening of Yaskawa factory in Kočevje, Slovenia, near border with Croatia, has significant impact on integrating the robots in production and education in central and South-east Europe.

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2003

R ecently, there has been much interest in achieving educational [1]- and research objectives through the use of small, low-cost, configurable mobile robot kits. One such article argues that robotics provides students with needed experience dealing with integrated systems building, real-world issues, teamwork, multidiscipline information, and critical thinking. Recent excitement with the initial success of robot-based courses has led to ambitious plans incorporating robotics into computer science (CS) curriculums . Universities and high schools are employing these kits in artificial intelligence (AI), CS, engineering, and physics courses where they provide students with a new perspective on building integrated systems, allowing hands-on education and experimentation at low cost.

2014

This paper reports a method that uses humanoid robots as a communication medium. There are many interactive robots under development, but due to their limited perception, their interactivity is still far poorer than that of humans. Our approach in this paper is to limit robots ’ purpose to a non-interactive medium and to look for a way to attract people’s interest in the information that robots convey. We propose using robots as a passive-social medium, in which multiple robots converse with each other. We conducted a field experiment at a train station for eight days to investigate the effects of a passive-social medium.

2001

Abstract: This paper presents the contribution of Carlos III University (UC3M) in the IECAT (Innovative Educational Concepts for Autonomous and Teleoperated Systems) project which aims at create an innovative educational tool on autonomous and teleoperated mechatronics systems. UC3M will contribute in the project providing some experiments in the mobile robotics field. The main benefit of Web-based education systems is the expected growth of the participation level in the education process.

iurs.org, 9

Symposium on Robots and …, 2007

International Robotics & Automation Journal, 2017

There are many necessities that need to be improved in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education. The robotics represents a promising educational tool. Nowadays, robotic education tools arise with the aim of promoting the innovation and the motivation of the students during the learning process. Robots are becoming more common in our daily life; thus, it is important to integrate robots at all levels of our society. The robotics requires several skills such as systems thinking, programming mindset, active learning, mathematics, science, judgment and decision making, good communication, technology design , complex problem solving and persistence. These skills can be easily developed using robotics educational tools. This paper presents the evolution from a simple remote 4-wheeled robot to a scaled platform currently under development. These developed platforms are intended to be used for educational purposes in the context of STEM education.

2001

This paper presents the current contribution of Carlos III University (UC3M) in the Innovative Educational Concepts for Autonomous and Teleoperated Systems (IECAT) project which aims at create an innovative educational tool to allow students to perform remote laboratory experiments on autonomous and teleoperated mechatronic systems [1]. UC3M will provide remote experiments on indoor mobile robotics, addressing different approaches to solve the main problems of mobile robots, such as sensing, motion control, localization, world modeling, planning, etc. These experiments will be used on several mobile robotics and autonomous systems courses, at the undergraduate and graduate levels, at several universities involved in the IECAT project.

2000