A Distributed Robot Garden System
Computational thinking is an important part of a modern education, and robotics provides a powerful tool for teaching programming logic in an interactive and engaging way. The robot garden presented in this paper is a distributed multi-robot system capable of running autonomously or under user contr...
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| author | Sanneman, Lindsay M. Ajilo, Deborah M. DelPreto, Joseph Jeff Mehta, Ankur Miyashita, Shuhei Ramirez-Arau, Camila Yim, Sehyuk Kim, Sangbae Rus, Daniela L Abdolrahim Poorheravi, Negin |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Sanneman, Lindsay M. Ajilo, Deborah M. DelPreto, Joseph Jeff Mehta, Ankur Miyashita, Shuhei Ramirez-Arau, Camila Yim, Sehyuk Kim, Sangbae Rus, Daniela L Abdolrahim Poorheravi, Negin |
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| description | Computational thinking is an important part of a modern education, and robotics provides a powerful tool for teaching programming logic in an interactive and engaging way. The robot garden presented in this paper is a distributed multi-robot system capable of running autonomously or under user control from a simple graphical interface. Over 100 origami flowers are actuated with LEDs and printed pouch motors, and are deployed in a modular array around additional swimming and crawling folded robots. The garden integrates state-of-the-art rapid design and fabrication technologies with distributed systems software techniques to create a scalable swarm in which robots can be controlled individually or as a group. The garden can be used to teach basic algorithmic concepts through its distributed algorithm demonstration capabilities and can teach programming concepts through its education-oriented user interface. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1196852022-09-30T19:47:11Z A Distributed Robot Garden System Sanneman, Lindsay M. Ajilo, Deborah M. DelPreto, Joseph Jeff Mehta, Ankur Miyashita, Shuhei Ramirez-Arau, Camila Yim, Sehyuk Kim, Sangbae Rus, Daniela L Abdolrahim Poorheravi, Negin Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Sanneman, Lindsay M. Ajilo, Deborah M. DelPreto, Joseph Jeff Mehta, Ankur Miyashita, Shuhei Ramirez-Arau, Camila Yim, Sehyuk Kim, Sangbae Rus, Daniela L Abdolrahim Poorheravi, Negin Computational thinking is an important part of a modern education, and robotics provides a powerful tool for teaching programming logic in an interactive and engaging way. The robot garden presented in this paper is a distributed multi-robot system capable of running autonomously or under user control from a simple graphical interface. Over 100 origami flowers are actuated with LEDs and printed pouch motors, and are deployed in a modular array around additional swimming and crawling folded robots. The garden integrates state-of-the-art rapid design and fabrication technologies with distributed systems software techniques to create a scalable swarm in which robots can be controlled individually or as a group. The garden can be used to teach basic algorithmic concepts through its distributed algorithm demonstration capabilities and can teach programming concepts through its education-oriented user interface. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (grant 1240383) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (grant 1138967) National Science Foundation (U.S.). Graduate Research Fellowship (1122374) 2018-12-18T18:08:39Z 2018-12-18T18:08:39Z 2015-05 2018-12-10T16:56:56Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-1-4799-6923-4 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119685 Sanneman, Lindsay, Deborah Ajilo, Joseph DelPreto, Ankur Mehta, Shuhei Miyashita, Negin Abdolrahim Poorheravi, Cami Ramirez, Sehyuk Yim, Sangbae Kim, and Daniela Rus. “A Distributed Robot Garden System.” 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (May 2015). https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4247-3004 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8162-5317 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1199-5424 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6602-5329 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0218-6801 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5473-3566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2015.7140058 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) MIT Web Domain |
| spellingShingle | Sanneman, Lindsay M. Ajilo, Deborah M. DelPreto, Joseph Jeff Mehta, Ankur Miyashita, Shuhei Ramirez-Arau, Camila Yim, Sehyuk Kim, Sangbae Rus, Daniela L Abdolrahim Poorheravi, Negin A Distributed Robot Garden System |
| title | A Distributed Robot Garden System |
| title_full | A Distributed Robot Garden System |
| title_fullStr | A Distributed Robot Garden System |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Distributed Robot Garden System |
| title_short | A Distributed Robot Garden System |
| title_sort | distributed robot garden system |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119685 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4247-3004 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8162-5317 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1199-5424 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6602-5329 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0218-6801 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5473-3566 |
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