Evolvable wireless laboratory design and implementation for enhancing undergraduate wireless engineering education

本项目的主要成果是一个易于复制的可进化的、低成本的基于软件定义无线电（SDR）的无线通信和网络实验室模型，以及相关的教学材料。这些学习材料的目标受众是无线通信、移动计算和无线传感器网络专业的本科生。在这个项目中开发的无线实验室是基于使用GNU软件无线电的通用软件无线电外围设备（USRP）板的，GNU软件无线电是一个用于构建软件无线电的自由软件工具包，旨在使代码尽可能接近天线，并将无线电硬件问题转化为软件问题。本项目正在开发的实验室资源包括用户手册和教学手册。该项目正在对正在开发的材料进行试点测试，以显示它们在激励、吸引和提高学生学习和技能方面的有效性。该项目旨在通过将规定的和开放式的实验室体验结合起来，让学生接触有形信号、无线信道和通信系统，从而加强数学理论和模拟示例，并通过构建工作系统整合概念，从而改变无线通信教育。本项目的实验室成本低，便于携带，这使得正在开发的学习材料可以在整个工程教育界使用，这些材料将在那里广泛传播。

Computer Science (31)The primary deliverable in this project is an easily replicable model of evolvable, low-cost Software Defined Radio (SDR)-based wireless communication and networking laboratories and associated teaching and learning materials. The target audiences for these learning materials are undergraduate students in wireless communication, mobile computing, and wireless sensor networks.The wireless laboratories being developed in this project are based on the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) boards that employ GNU software radio, a free software toolkit for the building of software radios designed to get code as close to the antenna as possible and to turn radio hardware problems into software problems. Laboratory-based resources being developed in this project include user manuals and teaching manuals. The project is pilot-testing the materials being developed to show their effectiveness in motivating, engaging, and enhancing student learning and skills.The project intends to transform education in wireless communication by blending prescribed and open-ended lab experiences where students work with tangible signals, wireless channels, and communication systems, thereby reinforcing mathematical theories and simulation examples and integrating concepts by building working systems.The laboratories in this project are low cost and portable, which makes the learning materials being developed accessible throughout the engineering education community, where the materials will be disseminated broadly.