%0 Journal Article %J Journal of Inteligent and Robotic Sytems %D 2015 %T The Robot Programming Network %A Enric Cervera %A Philippe Martinet %A Marin, Raul %A Abou Moughlbay, Amine %A Angel P. del Pobil %A Jaime Alemany %A Esteller-Curto, Roger %A Gustavo A. Casañ %K Online learning %K Remote laboratories %K robot programming %X

The Robot Programming Network (RPN) is an initiative for creating a network of robotics education laboratories with remote programming capabilities. It consists of both online open course materials and online servers that are ready to execute and test the programs written by remote students. Online materials include introductory course modules on robot programming, mobile robotics and humanoids, aimed to learn from basic concepts in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to more advanced programming skills. The students have access to the online server hosts, where they submit and run their programming code on the fly. The hosts run a variety of robot simulation environments, and access to real robots can also be granted, upon successful achievement of the course modules. The learning materials provide step-by-step guidance for solving problems with increasing level of difficulty. Skill tests and challenges are given for checking the success, and online competitions are scheduled for additional motivation and fun. Use of standard robotics.

%B Journal of Inteligent and Robotic Sytems %V 81 %8 12/2015 %G eng %N 1 %& 77 %R DOI 10.1007/s10846-015-0201-7 %0 Conference Paper %B 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation %D 2015 %T ROS-Based Online Robot Programming for Remote Education and Training %A Gustavo A. Casañ %A Enric Cervera %A Abou Moughlbay, Amine %A Jaime Alemany %A Philippe Martinet %K Design %K Experimentation %K Languages %K online %K Programming %K Robots %K teaching %X

RPN (Robotic Programming Network) is an initiative to bring existing remote robot laboratories to a new dimension, by adding the flexibility and power of writing ROS code in an Internet browser and running it in the remote robot with a single click. The code is executed in the robot server at full speed, i.e. without any communication delay, and the output of the process is returned back. Built upon Robot Web Tools, RPN works out-of-the-box in any ROS-based robot or simulator. This paper presents the core functionality of RPN in the context of a web-enabled ROS system, its possibilities for remote education and training, and some experimentation with simulators and real robots in which we have integrated the tool in a Moodle environment, creating some programming courses and make it open to researchers and students (http://robotprogramming.uji.es).

 

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