Design Education Using Personal Mobile Robot

Yoshiyuki Takahashi; Motoki Takagi; Ikuo Yoneda

doi:10.20965/jrm.2011.p0739

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JRM Vol.23 No.5 pp. 739-747

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2011.p0739

(2011)

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Design Education Using Personal Mobile Robot

Yoshiyuki Takahashi^*, Motoki Takagi^**, and Ikuo Yoneda^*

^*Department of Human Environment Design, Faculty of Human Life Design, Toyo University, 48-1 Oka, Asaka-shi, Saitama 351-8510, Japan

^**Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 466-8555, Japan

Received:

March 4, 2011

Accepted:

July 11, 2011

Published:

October 20, 2011

Keywords:

robot in education, personal mobile robot, experience-based learning

Abstract

In this study, we describe an educational program of robotics in the course of the department of design. Most target students are uninterested in robotics and have no background with advanced mathematics and physics. Then, we try to expand experience-based learning by using a real robot. The non-science students in the university build an actual working robot and this interests them. The robot is a mobile robot that is designed to carry the objects instead of the user. Students did machining and assembling of mechanical and electrical parts and then built the mobile robot. After the course, 84% students scored more than average.

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Y. Takahashi, M. Takagi, and I. Yoneda, “Design Education Using Personal Mobile Robot,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.23 No.5, pp. 739-747, 2011.

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[1] [1] K. Sato, “Robot Development Classroom of Elementary School for Enhancing the Creative Skill,” IPSJ SIG, Technical Report, 2009-CE-98, No.16, 2009 (in Japanese).

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[4] [4] C. Cardeira et al., “A Low Cost Mobile Robot for Engineering Education,” Industrial Electronics Society, 2005, IECON 2005, 31st Annual Conf. of IEEE, 2005.

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[10] [10] M. Mizukawa et al., “Development and Evaluation of the Robotics Educational Material for Engineering Training in the Undergraduate School,” J. of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol.24, No.1, pp. 10-15, 2006 (in Japanese).

Design Education Using Personal Mobile Robot

Yoshiyuki Takahashi*, Motoki Takagi**, and Ikuo Yoneda*

Yoshiyuki Takahashi^*, Motoki Takagi^**, and Ikuo Yoneda^*