Robots and Robot Venues: Resources for AI Education
Papers from the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium
Douglas Blank, Zachary Dodds, Paul Rybski, Jerry Weinberg, and Holly Yanco, Program Cochairs
Technical Report SS-07-09. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Organizing Committee /
Douglas Blank, Zachary Dodds, Paul Rybski, Jerry Weinberg, and Holly Yanco
Preface /
Douglas Blank, Zachary Dodds, Paul Rybski, Jerry Weinberg, and Holly Yanco
A Pragmatic Global Vision System for Educational Robotics / 1
John Anderson and Jacky Baltes
Mini Grand Challenge Contest for Robot Education / 7
Robert Avanzato
Advanced Robotics Projects for Undergraduate Students / 10
Douglas Blank, Deepak Kumar, James Marshall, and Lisa Meeden
Robotics Education using Embedded Systems and Simulations / 16
Thomas Bräunl
A Robotics Introduction to Computer Science / 20
Debra T. Burhans
Using the AIBOs in a CS1 Course / 24
John Chilton and Maria Gini
Designing Robot Competitions that Promote AI Solutions: Lessons Learned Competing and Designing / 29
Jeffrey R. Croxell, Ross Mead, and Jerry B. Weinberg
Roomba Pac-Man: Teaching Autonomous Robotics through Embodied Gaming / 35
Brendan Charles Dickinson, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Mark Moseley, David Bloom, and Daniel Hartmann
Robotics in Early Undergraduate Education / 40
David L. Duke, Justin Carlson, and Chuck Thorpe
Integrating Low-Cost Robot Devices into Pyro / 44
Tim Fossum and James Snow
Finding the "Right" Robot Competition: Targeting Non-Engineering Undergraduates / 49
Susan Eileen Fox
Educational Haptics / 53
David I. Grow, Lawton N. Verner, and Allison M. Okamura
Extra-Curricular Robotics: Entry-Level Soccer for Undergraduates / 59
Susan Imberman, Aleksandr Barkan, and Elizabeth Sklar
Student Feedback on Robotics in CS1 / 65
Susan P. Imberman, Roberta Klibaner, and Sarah Zelikovitz
Concurrency, Robotics, and RoboDeb / 69
Christian L. Jacobsen and Matthew C. Jadud
An Undergraduate Course in Robotics and Machine Intelligence / 74
Ben A. Juliano and Renee S. Renner
Getting Down and Dirty: Incorporating Homogeneous Transformations and Robot Kinematics into a Computer Science Robotics Class / 80
Jennifer S. Kay
Undergraduate Capstone Projects on Multi-Robot Systems / 82
Christopher Kitts
Low-Cost On-Board Linux, Vision, Wi-Fi, and More for the Roomba Robotics Base / 88
Tod E. Kurt
Real Robots Don't Drive Straight / 90
Fred G. Martin
Introducing the Blackfin Handy Board / 95
Fred G. Martin and Andrew Chanler
Materials for Enabling Hands-On Robotics and STEM Education / 99
Maja J. Mataric, Nathan Koenig, and David Feil-Seifer
Demonstrating the Capabilities of MindStorms NXT for the AI Curriculum / 103
Myles McNally and Frank Klassner
Eclectic Robotics for a Mixed Audience / 105
Jeanine Meyer and Rona Gurkewitz
Beyond Botball: A Software Oriented Robotics Challenge for Undergraduate Education / 108
David P. Miller, Charles Winton, and Jerry B. Weinberg
Robotics Education in Emerging Technology Regions / 113
G. Ayorkor Mills-Tettey, M. Bernardine Dias, Brett Browning, and Nathan Amanquah
TeRK: A Flexible Tool for Science and Technology Education / 118
Illah Nourbakhsh, Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, Carl DiSalvo, and Debra Bernstein
Aerial Robotics Competition: Lessons in Autonomy / 124
Paul Y. Oh, Keith W. Sevcik, and William E. Green
Leveraging the Nanogram League RoboCup Competition in the Undergraduate Classroom / 130
Jenelle Armstrong Piepmeier and Samara L. Firebaugh
Integrating Service Learning with Undergraduate Robotics Research / 133
Renee S. Renner and Benjoe A. Juliano
Robots Can Wear Multiple Hats in the Computer Science Curriculum at Liberal Arts Colleges / 139
Christine Shannon
Robotics Across the Curriculum / 142
Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons, and M. Q. Azhar
Using Robotic Competitions in Undergraduate Philosophy Courses: Studying the Mind through Simple Robotics / 148
John P. Sullins III
Enhance Students' Hands-On Experience with Robotics / 150
Fang Tang
Teleworkbench: A Remotely-Accessible Robotic Laboratory for Education / 154
Andry Tanoto, Ulf Witkowski, and Ulrich Rückert
Envisioning the Roomba as AI Resource: A Classroom and Laboratory Evaluation / 156
Ben Tribelhorn and Zachary Dodds
Robots in Education: Student Perspectives from the Classroom and the Field / 162
Colleen van Lent, Adder Argueta, Russel Casella, and Nate Jahns
Educating Teacher Students and Pupils through Robotics Courses and Olympiads: A Tiered Approach / 166
Igor M. Verner and Evgeny Korchnoy
Robotics Olympiads: A New Means to Facilitate Conceptualization of Knowledge Acquired in Robot Projects / 172
Igor M. Verner, David J. Ahlgren, and David P. Miller
Robots in an Interdisciplinary Course in the Liberal Arts / 178
Ellen L. Walker and Lee Braver
RoadNarrows Presents General Purpose Brain-Packs, Controller Boards, and Robots for Education and Research / 181
Kim Wheeler
Map-Making with a Four-Legged Mobile Robot / 184
Benjamin H. Willard and Kurt D. Krebsbach
Robotics Tools in Neuroscience Education / 188
Liudmila S. Yafremava, J. Jill Rogers, and M. Anthony Lewis
Artbotics: Combining Art and Robotics to Broaden Participation in Computing / 192
Holly A. Yanco, Hyun Ju Kim, Fred G. Martin, and Linda Silka
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