Accessible Hands-on AI and Robotics Education

Contents

• Teaching with RoboCup

  Jacky Baltes, Elizabeth Sklar, and John Anderson

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• Using Robotics to Introduce AI Topics to a Wider Audience

  Susan Eileen Fox

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• Teaching Deliberative Navigation Using the LEGO RCX and Standard LEGO Components

  Gary R. Mayer, Jerry B. Weinberg, and Xudong Yu

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• Interfacing Handheld Computers to Mobile Robots

  Robert Avanzato

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• Integrating Education and Real Research

  James Garner, Keith Bennett, William D. Smart, David J. Bruemmer, Douglas A. Few, and Christine M Roman

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• Preface

  Lloyd Greenwald, Zachary Dodds, Ayanna Howard, Sheila Tejada, and Jerry Weinberg

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• Schedule

  Lloyd Greenwald, Zachary Dodds, Ayanna Howard, Sheila Tejada, and Jerry Weinberg

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• Bridging the Gap between Space Robotics Research and Robotics Education

  Ayanna Howard and Eva Graham

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• Avoiding the Karel-the-Robot Paradox: A Framework for Making Sophisticated Robotics Accessible

  Douglas Blank, Holly Yanco, Deepak Kumar, and Lisa Meeden

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• Interfacing the Public and Technology: A Web Controlled Mobile Robot

  Erin J. Harris, R. Andrew Lamonica, and Jerry B. Weinberg

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• Using Robot Platforms to Enhance Concept Learning in Introductory Computer Science Courses

  Colleen Elizabeth Van Lent

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• Keeping the Focus on Heuristics: Network Game Agent for Teaching AI

  R. Andrew Lamonica, Xudong W. Yu, and Jerry Weinberg

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• Learning while Teaching Robotics

  Elizabeth Sklar and Amy Eguchi

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• CMRoboBits: Creating an Intelligent AIBO Robot

  Manuela Veloso, Scott Lenser, Douglas Vail, Paul Rybski, Nick Aiwazian, and Sonia Chernova

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• Robotics Education for All Ages

  Maja J. Mataric

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• Dustbot: Bringing a Vacuum-Cleaner Agent to Life

  Debra T. Burhans and Michael Kandefer

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• Teaching Artificial Intelligence with Low-Cost Robots

  Lloyd Greenwald and Donovan Artz

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• The Use of “Tell Me, Show Me, and Let Me Do It” in Teaching Robotics

  Hadi Moradi and Alireza Bahri

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• Using Robotics to Teach Computer Programming and AI Concepts to Engineering Students

  David P. Miller

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• An Introductory CS Course for Cognitive Science Students

  James B. Marshall

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• Designing an Online, Distributed, Project-Based Course in Mobile Autonomous Robotics

  Ajinkya Y. Bhave and Alex Kass

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• Lego Mindstorms Robotics in a (Very) Small Liberal Arts College

  Ellen L. Walker

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• Assessing Approaches to AI/Robotics Education Formal Measures of Learning in a Secondary School Mobile Robotics Course

  Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Emily Hamner, Kevin Crowley, and Katie Wilkinson

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• Organizing Committee

  Lloyd Greenwald, Zachary Dodds, Ayanna Howard, Sheila Tejada, and Jerry Weinberg

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• A Laboratory Exercise using LEGO Handy Board Robots to Demonstrate Neural Networks in an Artificial Intelligence Class

  Susan B. Imberman

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• Teaching AI using LEGO Mindstorms

  Simon Parsons and Elizabeth Sklar

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• Designing the Next-Generation Handy Board

  Fred G. Martin and George J. Pantazopoulos

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• Two Lab Exercises for an Introductory Robotics Class

  Jennifer Kay

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• The Use of Low-Cost RC Servos in a Robotics Curriculum

  Bradley E. Bishop, Jenelle Armstrong Piepmeier, George Piper, Kenneth A. Knowles, Kinleong Ho, and Bryan Hudock

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• Using Robotics to Motivate Learning in an AI Course for Non-Majors

  Andrea Pohoreckyj Danyluk

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• Designing Low-Cost Sensors Compatible with LEGO® Mindstorms™ Robotics Invention System™

  Sorin G. Achim, Florentin Achim, and Calin Achim

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• A Tool for Integrating Lisp and Robotics in AI Agents Courses

  Frank Klassner

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• Contents

  Lloyd Greenwald, Zachary Dodds, Ayanna Howard, Sheila Tejada, and Jerry Weinberg

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• Teaching Robot Localization with the Evolution ER1

  Zachary Dodds, Steven Santana, Brandt Erickson, Kamil Wnuk, Jessica Fisher, and Matt Livianu

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• AI and Robotics Labs at the Undergraduate Robotics Laboratory, St. Bonaventure University

  Robert M. Harlan

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• Using Virtual Synergy for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Education

  Sheila Tejada, Andrew Cristina, Ryan O'Hara, and Shahrukh Tarapore

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• Videofish: TV Worth Catching

  Robin R. Murphy, Hasan Elahi, and William Kearns

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• From POPSICLE to CARoL in a Semester

  Goran Trajkovski, Darush Davani, Gary Williams, Daniel Stamate, Gleb Gudzenko, and Daniel Bittner

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• TRIPOD — Computer Vision for Classroom Instruction and Robot Design

  Paul Y. Oh

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