A robot laboratory for teaching artificial intelligence
SIGCSE '98 Proceedings of the twenty-ninth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Using autonomous robotics to teach science and engineering
Communications of the ACM
Robots for kids: exploring new technologies for learning
Robots for kids: exploring new technologies for learning
Teaching design and project management with lego RCX robots
Proceedings of the thirty-second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education
Introduction to AI Robotics
Integrating Robotics Research with Undergraduate Education
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Learning to Communicate Through Imitation in Autonomous Robots
ICANN '97 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
Property Mapping: A Simple Technique for Mobile Robot Programming
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Using Legos and RoboLab (LabVIEW) with elementary school children
FIE '01 Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, 2001. on 31st Annual - Volume 01
Robotics learning as a tool for integrating science technology curriculum in K-12 schools
FIE '01 Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, 2001. on 31st Annual - Volume 01
FIE '00 Proceedings of the 30th Annual Frontiers in Education - Volume 02
Hardware competitions in engineering education
FIE '00 Proceedings of the 30th Annual Frontiers in Education - Volume 02
Using robots in an undergraduate artificial intelligence course: an experience report
FIE '01 Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, 2001. 31st Annual - Volume 02
FIE '01 Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, 2001. 31st Annual - Volume 02
The evolution of a computational outreach program to secondary school students
Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
The use of digital manipulatives in K-12
FIE'09 Proceedings of the 39th IEEE international conference on Frontiers in education conference
Application of Neuro-Fuzzy Controller for Sumo Robot control
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Beyond wrestling: using sumobots to engage students in the computer science classroom
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Hi-index | 0.00 |
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 in-depth, 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.