Abstract:
Educational Robotics uses robots as a tool for teaching a variety of subjects other than specifically robotics in undergraduate curricula. To achieve this goal is vital to have an adequate interface that allows inexperienced students to interact with robots in an easy manner. In this paper we present the current development of ERBPI (Easy Robot Behaviour Programming Interface), a new application that doesn't require any previous programming experience to control robots. To accomplish this, we propose to abandon the imperative programming paradigm and take a behaviour-based approach. Thus, the new application is based on the connectionist paradigm, accomplishing behaviours by establishing configurable connections between sensors and actuators. Moreover, different defined behaviours can be connected using a subsumption architecture. The new application is designed to work with different robots and simulators, and it is simple for adding new ones. Learning experiences with high school students allowed us to test its effectiveness. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
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Título: | A new programming interface for educational robotics |
Autor: | Caccavelli, J.; Pedre, S.; De Cristóforis, P.; Katz, A.; Bendersky, D. |
Ciudad: | Prague |
Filiación: | Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Palabras clave: | behaviour-based programming interface; educational robotics; Configurable; Control robots; educational robotics; High school students; Imperative programming; Learning experiences; New applications; Programming experience; Programming interface; Sensors and actuators; Subsumption architecture; Undergraduate curricula; Artificial intelligence; Behavioral research; Curricula; Robotics; Robots; Students; Robot programming |
Año: | 2011
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Volumen: | 161 CCIS
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Página de inicio: | 68
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Página de fin: | 77
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21975-7_7 |
Título revista: | International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics, EUROBOT 2011
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Título revista abreviado: | Commun. Comput. Info. Sci.
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ISSN: | 18650929
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Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_18650929_v161CCIS_n_p68_Caccavelli |
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Citas:
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Caccavelli, J., Pedre, S., De Cristóforis, P., Katz, A. & Bendersky, D.
(2011)
. A new programming interface for educational robotics. International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics, EUROBOT 2011, 161 CCIS, 68-77.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21975-7_7---------- CHICAGO ----------
Caccavelli, J., Pedre, S., De Cristóforis, P., Katz, A., Bendersky, D.
"A new programming interface for educational robotics"
. International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics, EUROBOT 2011 161 CCIS
(2011) : 68-77.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21975-7_7---------- MLA ----------
Caccavelli, J., Pedre, S., De Cristóforis, P., Katz, A., Bendersky, D.
"A new programming interface for educational robotics"
. International Conference on Research and Education in Robotics, EUROBOT 2011, vol. 161 CCIS, 2011, pp. 68-77.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21975-7_7---------- VANCOUVER ----------
Caccavelli, J., Pedre, S., De Cristóforis, P., Katz, A., Bendersky, D. A new programming interface for educational robotics. Commun. Comput. Info. Sci. 2011;161 CCIS:68-77.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21975-7_7