Title
Mobile Robot Programming In Education
Abstract
The Mobile Robot Programming Laboratory course has been taught at Carnegie Mellon University for the past twelve years. It is a problem-driven class designed for students with little or no experience with robots. In this paper, we first present the current status of the class, and show how it improves the education and training of students in a robotics curriculum by giving them a hands-on experience with a real robot. We show that, in addition to core subjects such as perception, action and cognition, students also have the opportunity to learn advanced topics such as reinforcement learning and multi-robot coordination. We then discuss the evolution of the class under general categories: hardware and programming environment, team experiments, and assignments. We present important lessons learned in each category, and how they affect the learning experience of participating students. We conclude by discussing future opportunities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641735
2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA), VOLS 1-10
Keywords
Field
DocType
educational robots,mobile robot,mobile robots,cognitive robotics,reinforcement learning,robot kinematics,cognition,learning artificial intelligence
Robot learning,Cognitive robotics,Curriculum,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Robot,Educational robotics,Multimedia,Robotics,Mobile robot,Reinforcement learning
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2006
1
1050-4729
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.56
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jean-françois Lalonde159037.69
Christopher P. Bartley2153.08
Illah Nourbakhsh32464294.80