科技发展之窗.ppt

* Robots: The Friendly Motivating Machine R. Mark Meyer Canisius College Computer Science Department Buffalo, NY * Outline Robots in the college curriculum Learning goals Our robots Courses Languages Assignments Experiences and conclusions /钢丝管 增强管 食品管 食品钢丝管 * Robotics in the college curriculum 2006 We were awarded an in-house 3-year grant to introduce robotics into the curriculum. It is called the Peter Canisius Distinguished Teaching Professorship Deb Burhans (CS and Bioinformatics) Mark Meyer (CS) David Sheets (Physics and Pre-engineering) Courses Computer Science introductory and senior AI HONORS program science elective First Year Seminar (writing course) Engineering 111 * Goals Recruit new CS majors Retain current CS majors Make the general studies courses more accessible and fun Provide new science elective for HONORS curriculum Motivate freshmen to learn how to write better Improve early programming skills for CS majors Introduce AI concepts to juniors/senior CS majors Learning Goals: the students will know... how to describe and define a robot how to interface robot sensors motors using Java how to better program traditional loops, decisions, subprograms how to describe some AI challenges and techniques * Robots used at Canisius Lego Mindstorms RCX (approximately 30) Lego Mindstorms NXT (approximately 60) Sony AIBO (6) [The cute white “dogs”, no longer made] Create from IRobot (1) [A vacuum-less Roomba] ER-1 (2) [Evolution robotics, requires a laptop] Funded by the in-house grant plus a $70,000 NASA grant * Our penbots (RCX) RCX penbot LEGO Mindstorms RCX introduced in 1998, sold over one million * Our penbots (NXT) NXT roverbot LEGO Mindstorms NXT introduced in 2006; much different from RCX; reliability issues (failure rate is about 50%) * Courses CSC 110 – A “CS 0” course CSC 109 – Another “CS 0” course that is solely robotics EGR 111 – Introduction to engineering (pre-engineers) CSC 111 – Our Java-based “CS 1” 1/3 of the labs are robots CS