Illah Nourbakhsh | The Robotics Institute | Carnegie Mellon University Educational Robotics and TeRK Illah Nourbakhsh and many others! Carnegie Mellon.

Illah Nourbakhsh | The Robotics Institute | Carnegie Mellon University

Educational Robotics and TeRK

Illah Nourbakhsh and many others!Carnegie Mellon University | Robotics Institute


Educational Robotics Audiences

Pre-college students

Undergraduate students

Graduate students

Lifelong learners


Survey of Educational Activities


Formal and ‘out-of-school’ curriculum

Contest-centered (local, regional, national)


Graduate students

Lifelong learners




Formal and ‘out-of-school’ curriculum

Contest-centered (local, regional, national)


Graduate students

Lifelong Learning




Undergraduate studentsIntroductory programming

Lab activities for lecture course

Advanced lab class

Open projects class

Graduate students

Lifelong learners




Undergraduate studentsIntroductory programming

Lab activities for lecture course

Advanced lab class

Open projects class

Graduate students

Lifelong learners



Pre-college studentsUndergraduate students

Introductory programmingLab activities for lecture courseAdvanced lab classOpen projects class

Graduate studentsLifelong learners



Pre-college studentsUndergraduate students

Introductory programmingLab activities for lecture courseAdvanced lab classOpen projects class

Graduate studentsLifelong learners





Graduate studentsAdvanced project platform

MS software practicum

PhD research equipment

Lifelong learners





Graduate students

Lifelong learnersHobby robotics community

Informal learning venues


Best of “Lessons Learned”

Robotics and gender retention- increased achievement in all-women teams- direct evidence of retention in CS, engineering fields

Mechanical empowerment- ID with technology results depends on full development cycle- robot activities should “push back on the world”

Remote programming- emphasize off-board and on-board code explicitly

Vision-centered perception- low-cost, enriched capabilities and rewarding outcomes

Self-defined challenges- physical embodiment leads to diversity of projects*


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What Students Expected to Learn and What They Reported Learning


Reported LearningQuotes from Trikebot Final Survey

“To open source ones code for the better of robotics.”

“Teamwork is hard especially with varying levels of skill and different personalities…can be rewarding only through compromise.”“Document what one does so someone else can repeat the experiment [and] be just or even more successful.”“That no matter what the obstacle we have, we can still overcome it and solve it.”“Start with the basics, then make things fancier if you want…simple is absolutely fine if it works well.”“Have more confidence with myself.”“I learned that doing something slow is better than doing it twice.”


Telepresence Robotics Kit (TeRK)

- Robot reference design library

- Robot electronics package

- Robot connectivity and development software

- Community curriculum design effort

- Pilot education rollout & evaluation

release in early 2006




H. Ben Brown and mechanical ingenuity

COTS parts, hand tool processes

4 proto-recipes: telepresence chassis, 5 DOF arm, tabletop robot, sessilebot









ARM9 – FPGA hybrid design, high speed bus

Ethernet, 802.11, RS232, USB

Digital and analog i/o + 10 servoes + vision

4 MOSFET motor drivers (4A each) w/back-EMF

On-board switching power regulation

Price target: below $250









Out-the-box internet connectivity

Out-the-box telepresence client

Layering of human-robot interaction modalities









PER giveaway experiment

PIER education program- CMU, PIT

MIT, Columbia, UMass/Lowell

Ohlone College and several local schools



TeRKeys

CMU Mobile Robot Programming Lab University of Pittsburgh Learning Research &

Development Center Charmed Labs LotterShelly Current Funding: Microsoft (thank you!), Xilinx,

Creative WebCam, NASA/Ames, Google

Illah Nourbakhsh | The Robotics Institute | Carnegie Mellon University Educational Robotics and TeRK Illah Nourbakhsh and many others! Carnegie Mellon.

Documents

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diversity of projects

world remote programming

school curriculum contest

enriched capabilities

technology results

onboard code