Using Autonomous Robots and the Perception-Action Problem to Enhance Undergraduate Technical Education

使用自主机器人和感知行动问题来加强本科技术教育

• 批准号: 9555033
• 负责人: Kenneth Livingston
• 金额: $ 8.97万
• 依托单位: Vassar College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-02-15 至 1998-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9555033&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Using; Autonomous; Robots; Perception; Action

The primary goal of this project is to develop a series of laboratory exercises that use the broad appeal of actual behaving robots to draw students into a deeper understanding of several key technical concepts of importance in cognitive science. These concepts include key ideas from computer programming, hardware design (including A to D and D to A conversion and basic DC electronics), as well as some of the more technical concepts in the study of perception and action in biological systems. Both of these areas often seem daunting to students precisely because they require levels of technical sophistication beyond those reached by most beginning undergraduates at liberal arts colleges. This project is designed to provide students with a simple, autonomous robot and a user interface for communication with the robot. The basic strategies for the design of the robot itself have been well explored by others; the innovative feature of this project will be in the design of the interface for communicating with the robot. This will be a multi-layered system capable of taking the student from a very intuitive point-and-click interface for programming the robot through layers of increasing technical depth and culminating in an understanding of both the software and the hardware that implement the student's instructions. The materials to be prepared by the conclusion of this project will be designed in modular fashion so that they may be incorporated into courses other than cognitive science courses. In particular, psychology and computer science curricula at many institutions would benefit from inclusion of this laboratory. NSF FORM 1358 (1/94) i v

该项目的主要目标是开发一系列实验室练习，利用实际行为机器人的广泛吸引力，吸引学生深入了解认知科学中几个重要的关键技术概念。 这些概念包括计算机编程，硬件设计（包括A到D和D到A转换和基本直流电子学）的关键思想，以及生物系统中感知和行动研究中的一些技术概念。 这两个领域对学生来说往往令人生畏，正是因为它们需要的技术复杂程度超出了文科大学大多数刚开始的本科生所能达到的水平。 该项目旨在为学生提供一个简单的，自主的机器人和用户界面与机器人进行通信。 机器人本身设计的基本策略已经被其他人很好地探索;该项目的创新特征将是与机器人通信的界面设计。 这将是一个多层次的系统，能够让学生从一个非常直观的点击界面开始，通过不断增加的技术深度对机器人进行编程，并最终理解实现学生指令的软件和硬件。 本项目结束时准备的材料将以模块化方式设计，以便将其纳入认知科学课程以外的课程。 特别是，心理学和计算机科学课程在许多机构将受益于纳入这个实验室。 NSF表格1358（1/94）i v