Abstract
Nowadays, mobile robots platforms are being used in different education contexts. The state of the art shows that 197 papers have been published in this area knowledge over ten years. Latin America faces a problem regarding the enrolled students in engineering programs. The SPADIES program (Colombia) affirms that the lack of motivation and interaction with real artifacts relating theory and practice is an important aspect for dropout. In this work, a platform composed by a set of programmable mobile robots, and a WEB-responsive software tool for programming at different levels of knowledge were implemented. The set of mobile robots were implemented with proximity, trajectory, light, inertial, and vision sensors; also, tools such as Bluetooth and LEDs-ring are included; and, a mechanical support for an erasable marker. The WEB-responsive tool supports graphical programming for novice, Python programming for middle, and ANSI-C for advanced level learners.
Highlights
Robotics is a valuable learning resource which allows students building their own concepts on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math [STEM]
Latin America faces a serious problem of students enrollment into engineering programs (Ministerio de Educación, 2014)
Many mobile robotic platforms are available and ready to use in engineering education
Summary
Robotics is a valuable learning resource which allows students building their own concepts on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math [STEM]. Robotics on education has been becoming an interesting research topic over last years, in Benitti (2012) and Major, Kyriacou and Brereton (2011) report 197 different scientific works over the last 10 years. These works show that robotics on education is an important tool to improve the learning process, at secondary level but at Universities. In Colombia, according with the Ministry of Education statistics (Mineducación, 2014) the Engineering graduate student to population ratio is 0.0005364 which means 1 Engineering student for 1864 people These statistics show that only the 5% of enrolled students in Engineering programs finish their studies. This work is focused to develop a platform composed by a set of mobile robots, and a development environment with the aim of allowing students more interaction with real learning artifacts using programming languages with increasing complexity
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