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

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Educational Robotics and TeRK Illah Nourbakhsh
and many others!Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
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Educational Robotics Audiences

• Pre-college students
• Undergraduate students
• Graduate students
• Lifelong learners

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Survey of Educational Activities

• Pre-college students
• Formal and out-of-school curriculum
• Contest-centered (local, regional, national)
• Undergraduate students
• Graduate students
• Lifelong learners

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Survey of Educational Activities

• Pre-college students
• Formal and out-of-school curriculum
• Contest-centered (local, regional, national)
• Undergraduate students
• Graduate students
• Lifelong Learning

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Survey of Educational Activities

• Pre-college students
• Undergraduate students
• Introductory programming
• Lab activities for lecture course
• Advanced lab class
• Open projects class
• Graduate students
• Lifelong learners

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Survey of Educational Activities

• Pre-college students
• Undergraduate students
• Introductory programming
• Lab activities for lecture course
• Advanced lab class
• Open projects class
• Graduate students
• Lifelong learners

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Survey of Educational Activities

• Pre-college students
• Undergraduate students
• Introductory programming
• Lab activities for lecture course
• Advanced lab class
• Open projects class
• Graduate students
• Lifelong learners

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Survey of Educational Activities

• Pre-college students
• Undergraduate students
• Introductory programming
• Lab activities for lecture course
• Advanced lab class
• Open projects class
• Graduate students
• Lifelong learners

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Survey of Educational Activities

• Pre-college students
• Undergraduate students
• Graduate students
• Advanced project platform
• MS software practicum
• PhD research equipment
• Lifelong learners

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Survey of Educational Activities

• Pre-college students
• Undergraduate students
• Graduate students
• Lifelong learners
• Hobby robotics community
• Informal learning venues

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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
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What Students Expected to Learn and What They
Reported Learning
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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 personalitiescan 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 wantsimple is absolutely fine if it works
  well.
• Have more confidence with myself.
• I learned that doing something slow is better
  than doing it twice.

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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

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Telepresence Robotics Kit (TeRK)

• - Robot reference design library
• H. Ben Brown and mechanical ingenuity
• COTS parts, hand tool processes
• 4 proto-recipes telepresence chassis, 5 DOF
  arm, tabletop robot, sessilebot
• - Robot electronics package
• - Robot connectivity and development software
• - Community curriculum design effort
• - Pilot education rollout evaluation

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Telepresence Robotics Kit (TeRK)

• - Robot reference design library
• - Robot electronics package
• 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
• - Robot connectivity and development software
• - Community curriculum design effort
• - Pilot education rollout evaluation

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Telepresence Robotics Kit (TeRK)

• - Robot reference design library
• - Robot electronics package
• - Robot connectivity and development software
• Out-the-box internet connectivity
• Out-the-box telepresence client
• Layering of human-robot interaction modalities
• - Community curriculum design effort
• - Pilot education rollout evaluation

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Telepresence Robotics Kit (TeRK)

• - Robot reference design library
• - Robot electronics package
• - Robot connectivity and development software
• - Community curriculum design effort
• PER giveaway experiment
• PIER education program- CMU, PIT
• MIT, Columbia, UMass/Lowell
• Ohlone College and several local schools
• - Pilot education rollout evaluation

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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