Learning physical fields through operating robot movements: a case study

Author

Verner, Igor M. ; Ushin, Igal ; Korchnoy, Evgeny

Author_Institution

Dept. of Educ. in Technol. & Sci., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel

Volume

14

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

383

Lastpage

388

Abstract

This paper considers an electronic development workshop course taught in Israeli high schools (grade 11). The students learn electronic systems in the context of their application to operating a mobile robot. They equip a mobile robot platform with sensor systems, and perform assignments of automatic detection of electrical, sound, and other physical fields. Our educational study examines the effect of learning experiences with different physical environments throughout the course on the students´ understanding of physical field concepts.

Keywords

control engineering education; electronic engineering education; mobile robots; sensors; student experiments; electrical field detection; electronic development workshop course; mobile robot operation; physical field detection; physical field learning; robot movements; sound field detection; Computer aided software engineering; Computer science education; Educational institutions; Educational robots; Educational technology; Human robot interaction; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation; Sensor systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automation Congress, 2002 Proceedings of the 5th Biannual World

Print_ISBN

1-889335-18-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAC.2002.1049469

Filename

1049469