The Personal Rover Project: Robotics for the Masses

Опубликовано 6 сентября 2016, 4:58

The Personal Rover Project is a comprehensive effort to develop and deploy a low-cost rover platform for diverse environments, including the home. This rover serves as an exploration-centered, creative outlet for children as they shape the rover's daily and weekly activities. We argue that such a personal rover will excite and inspire users about math, science and engineering. Early project results include the CMUcam2 embedded vision board, a weight-shifting high COM prototype for climbing ledges and educational study results following a 30 student test course, Robotic Autonomy, that has now been taught for two consecutive summers at NASA/Ames and CMU West. The newest results include the pilot deployment of the Personal Exploration Rover into top science museums around the country, including the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and the San Francisco Exploratorium. In this talk I will motivate the Personal Rover Project and will describe our most recent robotic technological results and educational robotics analyses. For more information see www.cs.cmu.edu/~personalrover/PER and www.cs.cmu.edu/~cmucam