Abstract
This paper presents an outreach program aimed to introduce high school students to the basic concepts of intelligent robotics, internet of things (IoT), digital simulation, and programming in Robot Operating System (ROS). The challenge of teaching the emerging technologies to school students was addressed through collaboration of engineering educators from Technion and MIT and professional engineers from PTC Corp. The participants were 15 high school students majoring in computer science. The program included three parts studied at the Technion. In the robotics course, the students constructed and programmed mobile robotic arms to pick and place objects of unknown weight and communicate via the IoT platform ThingWorx. In the second course, the school students programmed a TurtleBot Waffle robot equipped by LIDAR sensor to navigate in an environment by means of simultaneous localization and mapping. In the mini project the students programmed two mobile robotic arms and the Waffle to implement a warehouse scenario, in which the robots jointly carried out loading, transportation and warehousing of a cargo. Assessment results indicated that the students acquired initial understanding of the studied concepts. The program raised their interest in intelligent robotics and awareness about technological and social changes associated with Industry 4.0.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Porter, M.E., Heppelmann, J.E.: How smart, connected products are transforming competition. Harv. Bus. Rev. 92(11), 64–88 (2014)
Liao, Y., Deschamps, F., de Freitas Rocha Loures, E., Felipe Pierin Ramos, L.: Past, present and future of Industry 4.0 - a systematic literature review and research agenda proposal. Int. J. Prod. Res. 55(12), 3609–3629 (2017)
Richert, A., Shehadeh, M., Plumanns, L., Grob, K., Schuster, K., Jeshke, S.: Educating engineers for industry 4.0: virtual worlds and human-robot-teams. Empirical studies towards a new educational age. In: Proceedings of EDUCON, pp. 142–149 (2016)
Motyl, B., Baronio, G., Uberti, S., Speranza, D., Filippi, S.: How will change the future engineers’ skills in the industry 4.0 framework? Questionnaire Surv. Procedia Manuf. 11, 1501–1509 (2017)
Verner, I., Cuperman, D., Fang, A., Reitman, M., Romm, T., Balikin, G.: Robot online learning through digital twin experiments: a weightlifting project. Online Engineering & Internet of Things, pp. 307–314. Springer, Cham (2018)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Verner, I., Cuperman, D., Romm, T., Reitman, M., Chong, S.K., Gong, Z. (2020). Intelligent Robotics in High School: An Educational Paradigm for the Industry 4.0 Era. In: Auer, M., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) The Challenges of the Digital Transformation in Education. ICL 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 916. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11932-4_76
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11932-4_76
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-11931-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-11932-4
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and RoboticsIntelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)