Robotics and Simulation for Computer Science Education in the 21st Century

21 世纪计算机科学教育的机器人与仿真

• 批准号: 1023006
• 负责人: Frank Klassner
• 金额: $ 26万
• 依托单位: Villanova University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1023006&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Robotics; Simulation; Computer; Science; Education

Computing (35)This project is developing accessible, scalable simulation of robotic systems for use across the collegiate computer science curriculum. It is also assessing the utility of simulation in managing the time students spend on robot construction and software debugging at different course levels in the curriculum. The project is adapting JPL/NASA's ROAMS system to create the Robotic Analysis and Modeling Simulator (RAMS) for teaching material with a robotics component across the computing curriculum. RAMS is testing the pedagogical benefits of interfaces that can be scaled by the instructor to offer students simulation details appropriate to the laboratory project at hand. RAMS is using a platform-neutral approach to model robots to help educators more easily identify and exploit pedagogical commonalities among the many educational platforms in use today. The project's intellectual merit derives from researching how to make mechanical and environmental background knowledge in robotics projects appropriately accessible to computer science majors and from investigating the role of simulations in improving computer science students' educational experience with robotics. The project's simulator has broader impact in making computer science education's "robotics revolution" more accessible at colleges with little hardware engineering support to help students develop skills at designing software for robots. The RAMS system is being evaluated as a basis for Internet resources to allow schools with limited resources to participate more cost-effectively in national or regional robotics competitions through realistic networked simulations. This project is making NASA software from popular programs (e.g. Mars Rovers) more accessible to the US undergraduate community.

计算 (35) 该项目正在开发可访问、可扩展的机器人系统模拟，以供整个大学计算机科学课程使用。 它还正在评估模拟在管理学生在不同课程级别的机器人构建和软件调试上花费的时间方面的效用。该项目正在采用 JPL/NASA 的 ROAMS 系统来创建机器人分析和建模模拟器 (RAMS)，用于在整个计算课程中包含机器人组件的教材。 RAMS 正在测试接口的教学优势，教师可以扩展这些接口，为学生提供适合手头实验室项目的模拟细节。 RAMS 正在使用平台中立的方法来建模机器人，以帮助教育工作者更轻松地识别和利用当今使用的许多教育平台之间的教学共性。该项目的智力价值源于研究如何使计算机科学专业的机器人项目中的机械和环境背景知识能够适当地获取，以及研究模拟在改善计算机科学学生的机器人教育体验中的作用。该项目的模拟器具有更广泛的影响，使计算机科学教育的“机器人革命”在几乎没有硬件工程支持的大学中更容易实现，以帮助学生培养设计机器人软件的技能。 RAMS系统正在被评估为互联网资源的基础，以允许资源有限的学校通过现实的网络模拟以更经济有效的方式参与国家或地区的机器人竞赛。 该项目正在使美国本科生社区更容易使用流行程序（例如火星漫游者）中的 NASA 软件。