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Undergraduate pilot course with ROS and MiniMax:
enthusiasm gained &lessons learned
Dr. Sharon Gower SmallDirector Siena College Institute for Artificial Intelligencewww.siena.edu/SCIAISIGCSE February 29, 2012
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SIGCSE 2012
MiniMax ROS challenges Course Design ROBOSHOW 2011 Fall 2012
◦ Course will be offered again◦ Changes to be made
Agenda
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SIGCSE 2012
MiniMax comes to life
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SIGCSE 2012
MiniMax
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SIGCSE 2012
Operating System◦ Linux was new to a majority of the students
ROS File System & Communication◦ Packages, Nodes, Topics, Messages, etc.
Publishing messages to a topic Subscribing to topics
Class Size
Main Challenges
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SIGCSE 2012
Very Fast Paced◦ Nothing -> fully functional demos in 13 weeks
Linux ROS
◦ Used the Online ROS tutorials Tested their knowledge
post tutorial worksheets applied work
Course Design
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SIGCSE 2012
Team Projects◦ Teams of 4 students◦ Professor Selected Teams
Balanced GPA◦ Self Selected Projects
Team proposals◦ 3 Project Checkpoints
Round Table Research◦ Individual presentations to the class◦ Second half of the semester
Course Design
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SIGCSE 2012
https://www.siena.edu/pages/179.asp?item=321056
http://www.youtube.com/user/SCIAIRobotics
Excellent community turnout◦ Student body, local media, College President and
other administrators, etc. Formal Event Post Videos Required
ROBOSHOW 2011
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SIGCSE 2012
Limiting Enrollment
Repeat for Credit◦ More experienced teams take their demo further
Solve teaming issues
Ramp up faster◦ More upper level students◦ Biweekly homework assignments
Fall 2012
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SIGCSE 2012
Repeat Round Table Research
Repeat RoboShow
Require Video
Require project documentation Require nodes uploaded to ROS website
Fall 2012
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SIGCSE 2012
Expand on vision capabilities
Expand on dialogue capabilities
Better arms/grippers?
Fall 2012
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SIGCSE 2012
QUESTIONS?