cyber-infrastructure for supporting k-12 engineering education through robotics department of...
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Cyber-Infrastructure for Supporting K-12 Engineering Education through Robotics
Department of Computer ScienceDrexel UniversityWilliam Regli (PI)
Project Objectives
• Develop a multi-disciplinary approach to Engineering Informatics education
• Design curricular materials around the theme of bio-inspired and snake-inspired robots– Make materials accessible to undergraduates and high-school
students• Create cyber-tools for design/analysis of bio-inspired
robots• Create and populate a repository (i.e. cyber-
infrastructure) with information on bio-inspired robot design and dozens of template designs– Including full engineering models (CAD, Simulation, kinematics,
dynamics, etc
CI-TEAM: Creation and Use of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Models
NSF CISE/SCI-0537370• Lead Institution: Drexel University
– William Regli (CS, PI), Michael Piasecki (CivE)– Engineering design, ontologies, knowledge rep
• University of Maryland @ College Park– SK Gupta (MechE)– Bio-inspired design, robotics, manufacturing
• University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill– Ming Lin and Dinesh Manocha (CS)– Physics-based modeling, 3D graphics
• University of Wisconsin @ Madison– Nicola Ferrier, Vadim Shapiro, Krishnan Suresh (MechE)– Engineering design, kinematics/dynamics, geometric representations
Project Activities
• Team-taught multiple bio-robotics related classes across several institutions
• Students design, build, model and simulate full bio-robots or bio-inspired mechanisms
• Students learn multi-disciplinary modeling– CAD/CAM (i.e. Pro/E, CATIA etc), Simulation (i.e.
ADAMS, ODE, etc), Information Modeling (i.e. OWL, UML, etc)
• Result: Multi-disciplinary thinking about the design, fabrication, assembly, simulation and programming of bio-inspired robotic systems
Current “Lesson Learned”
• Bio-robotic domain is a great motivator– Students self-taught themselves basic CAD and tools
like ADAMS in 2-3 weeks• One has to be open to novel educational
techniques– “Cheating” was encouraged, creativity was stress in
the integration of ideas and their transformation into new ideas
• Students integrated ideas from many previously unconnected academic areas– Physics, graphics, AI all meet biology and mechanical
engineering
Expected Outcomes
• Runs thru 2009
• Production of dozens of models of bio-inspired robots– Complete robots, robot sub-mechanisms– Simulation models, physics models
• Academic tools, commercial (ADAMS), etc
• Documented on project wikihttp://gicl.cs.drexel.edu
Q&A
For more information:http://gicl.cs.drexel.edu/wiki/
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation Cyber-Infrastructure TEAMs Grants SCI-0537125 & OCI-0636273, CIBER-UGrant SCI-0537370 & OCI-0636235,
Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Models
With additional support from….