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RoboTown: Robots for Research and Outreach

International Journal of Information Engineering and Applications
Vol.1 , No. 2, Publication Date: Mar. 10, 2018, Page: 37-50

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[1]	Lee Boehm, Department of Informatics, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA.
[2]	Kellen Krammes, Department of Informatics, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA.
[3]	Shawn Mathes, Department of Informatics, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA.
[4]	Tyler Risinger, Department of Informatics, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA.
[5]	Emma Romig, Department of Informatics, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA.
[6]	Sridhar Ramachandran, Department of Informatics, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, USA.

Abstract

The focus of the research and development project discussed in this paper is to design, formalize, implement, and deliver a cost-effective, user oriented, useful and usable tool (called RoboTown) for easy use by middle school children and their teachers. The research team began with the goal of making a middle school student friendly research tool to seamlessly introduce the concepts of information systems to learners through robotics and electronics. The completed project includes a fully autonomous rover-style robot built using 3D printed material around an Arduino Mega microcontroller, along with a fully functional companion website that serves as the main source of the lessons and includes; instructional videos, interactive programming lessons, instructional resources, as well as links to download all the material for offline use in a computer laboratory.

Keywords

Information System, Informatics, Arduino, Robotics, Electronics

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