Preliminary design of interactive visual mobile programming on educational robot ADROIT V1

Abstract

The development of robotics have a great potential to be integrated with educational system. Robotics become more common in elementary and high school students. However, the absence of a module which integrates hardware and software makes harder for them to learn robotic. To help students learning robotics by using an easy to build robot with a dedicated interactive Graphical User Interface (GUI) to program it, we propose a module that integrates the simplicity of modular robot with feasible and appealing mobile visual IDE programming apps. A modular robot which allows student to build the robot without have to build it from the scratch, and Mobile visual IDE is an android based apps which allow user to program robot in GUI with a drag and drop icons followed by property editor. The icons represent robot commands such as moving and interacting with objects. This module also support advanced robotics features such as line follower, wall follower and free movement. The evaluation results demonstrate the visual appearance, ease of operation, the level of enjoyment, and benefit considered quite good by the respondents.