Low Cost Mobile Robot Kits Design as a Teaching Tool for Education and Research

摘要

Robot technology is important for students to be able to work in 21st century and to share technical knowhow. Learning robot technology is very difficult because the high costs of hardware equipment; it was used mainly in the hi-tech subject’s area such as military affairs, space, medicine, engineering, etc. With the improvements and developments of technology, Robot technology is now open for the general public’s use. In basic education, it is also more and more popular to use robot when teaching science, physics, technology, etc. Unfortunately, the robot equipment also still high costs. This project concentrates on the design and develops a low cost mobile robot kits as a teaching tool for education and research. In this project we developed a tool that will help students to understand technology based on mobile robotics technology and electronic engineering. The robot kit in this project was designed to create modular systems, considering assembly requirements of different types of objects as well as various user activities. Each module of the robot kit takes care of a core function required to operate automata. The modules help students build kinetic sculptures quickly and easily, eliminating the need for unsafe tasks such as soldering. Further, the features of this robot kit can be expanded to allow integration with programming modular and multimedia programming environment, making it possible to develop more creative automata for improve education and research forward.