An Implementation of the Agency Architecture in Educational Robotics

Abstract

Educational robotics has long been proved an effective tool to enhance teaching effectiveness in scientific fields such as mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer science. Teachers working in a robotics classroom, however, face difficulty in the identification of the needs for proper interventions to the students’ learning processes. To tackle this problem, we proposed and implemented an agency architecture which uses software agents to monitor the student activities and robot movements. The implementation is multi-agent based and distributed across a network of student terminals as well as the teacher terminal. As a result, both promising prospects and limitations are revealed in this implementation.