A Behavior-based approach for educational robotics activities

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-66

  De Cristoforis, Pablo ^a   Pedre, Sol ^a   Nitsche, Matías ^a   Fischer, Thomas ^a   Pessacg, Facundo ^a   Di Pietro, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Behavior based robotics; educational robotics; mobile robots; robots programming interface; STEM outreach

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR BASED ROBOTICS; BEHAVIOR-BASED; BUENOS AIRES , ARGENTINA; EDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS; IN-FIELD; OUTREACH ACTIVITY; OUTREACH PROGRAMS; PROGRAMMING INTERFACE; PROGRAMMING ROBOTS; SCIENCE , TECHNOLOGY , ENGINEERING , AND MATHS; SECONDARY SCHOOLS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; STATISTICAL DATAS; STEM OUTREACH; STUDENT ENROLLMENTS; TEACHING RESOURCES; UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM;

CURRICULA; MACHINE DESIGN; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84873414320     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2012.2220359     Document Type: Article

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