Title :
Designing a low-cost, expressive educational robot
Author :
Hsiu, Thomas ; Richards, Steve ; Bhave, Ajinkya ; Perez-Bergquist, Andres ; Nourbakhsh, Illah
Abstract :
The Trikebot is the result of a ground-up design effort chartered to develop an effective and low-cost educational robot for secondary level education and home use. This paper describes all aspects of the Trikebot, including chassis and mechanism; control electronics; communication architecture; robot control server and student programming environment. Notable innovations include a fast-build construction kit, indoor/outdoor terrainability, CMOS vision-centered sensing, back-EMF motor speed control and a Java programming interface.
Keywords :
Java; control engineering education; educational aids; educational courses; mobile robots; robot programming; robot vision; student experiments; velocity control; CMOS vision centered sensing; Java programming interface; Trikebot; back EMF motor speed control; communication architecture; control electronics; educational robot; fast build construction kit; ground up design; home use robot; indoor/outdoor terrainability; secondary level education; student programming; Communication system control; Educational programs; Educational robots; Java; Programming environments; Programming profession; Robot control; Robot programming; Technological innovation; Velocity control;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2003. (IROS 2003). Proceedings. 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7860-1
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.2003.1249230
