Robotic Renaissance: Bridging Engineering, Art, and Science via Web Robotics

工程-电气（55）该项目的实质是采用工程学中的移动的机器人技术，并在涉及表演艺术和设计的基本跨学科教育环境中实施。该项目正在调整现成机器人的成熟教育用途，以及他们以前在戏剧表演中成功使用定制机器人。传统的机器人教学从机械和软件发展到功能车辆。留给应用程序开发的时间很少，许多有才华的非工程专业学生无法参与。 这种创新的本科生机器人应用环境，通过使用现成的移动的机器人，通过网页界面控制，不需要专门的系统经验。 它提供了富有成效的跨学科参与和工程和艺术学生的相互充实。 用户通过标准Web浏览器（如NetScape（c）或Internet Explorer@）访问HTML控制面板。该计划采用移动的机器人、无线通讯系统和配有适当服务器和软件的个人电脑，旨在提供一个开放的开发环境，让各学科的学生和教师为移动的机器人开发创新的应用程序。以此类推，这就是浏览器为互联网所做的事情，它在推动技术进步的同时，彻底改变了商业和文化，其结果是丰富了工程和艺术领域的跨学科课程，教师队伍的发展，以及令人兴奋的应用，包括由专业艺术家指导的WWW机器人戏剧表演。正在通过网络和出版物传播成果。

Engineering - Electrical (55)The essence of this project is to adopt mobile robotic technology from engineering and implement it in a fundamentally interdisciplinary education environment involving the performing arts and design. The project is adapting the proven educational use of off-the-shelf robots and their previous successful use of custom robots in theatrical performance. Traditional robotic pedagogy progresses from mechanisms and software to functional vehicles. Little time is left for application development, and many talented non-engineering students cannot participate. This innovative undergraduate robotics application environment by using off-the-shelf mobile robots, controlled via Web page interfaces requires no specialized systems experience. It is providing productive cross-disciplinary participation and mutual enrichment of engineering and arts students. Users access HTML control panels via standard Web browser such as NetScape(c) or Internet Explorer@. Mobile robots, wireless communication links, and PC computers with suitable server and software is being used.The educational aim is to provide an open development environment - free of operating system or platform expertise requirements - for students and faculty in all academic disciplines to develop creative applications for mobile robots. By analogy, this is what browsers did for the Internet, revolutionizing both commerce and culture while fueling further technical progress.Outcomes are enrichment of cross-disciplinary curricula in engineering and arts, faculty development, and exciting applications including WWW robotic theatrical performances directed by a professional artist. Results are being disseminated via Web and publications.