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A Development of Educational Robot Software for Master's Course Students

Authors:

Harumi Watanabe,

Ikuta Tanigawa,

Nobuhiko Ogura,

Kenji HisazumiAuthors Info & Claims

WESE'15: Proceedings of the WESE'15: Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems Education

Article No.: 11, Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/2832920.2832931

Published: 04 October 2015 Publication History

Abstract

The paper introduces a development environment tool of vacuum cleaner robot software for educating master's course students. The tool gives students a robot development environment on C-like language and C#. Educational robots are widely-known to be efficient for learning the embedded and cyber-physical system design. With increasing the use of the educational robot, the requirement has become to be complicated. We focus on the five requirements: motivation, extendibility, usability, adaptability and transplantability. The main implementation idea is a runtime library and serial communication. We apply the tool to two applications and transplant to 3 type robots. In this paper, we present the outline of the educational robot software and its development.

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Chishiro HChubachi YNakamura MKrishnamurthi MIinuma M(2018)Co-education of master course students and business peopleProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information and Education Technology10.1145/3178158.3178170(89-96)Online publication date: 6-Jan-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3178158.3178170

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Chishiro HChubachi YNakamura MKrishnamurthi MIinuma M(2018)Co-education of master course students and business peopleProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information and Education Technology10.1145/3178158.3178170(89-96)Online publication date: 6-Jan-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3178158.3178170

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