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Treffer: Open Remote Web Lab for Learning Robotics and ROS with Physical and Simulated Robots in an Authentic Developer Environment

Title:
Open Remote Web Lab for Learning Robotics and ROS with Physical and Simulated Robots in an Authentic Developer Environment
Language:
English
Authors:
Davis Krumins (ORCID 0000-0003-2726-6581), Sandra Schumann (ORCID 0000-0002-5664-8813), Veiko Vunder (ORCID 0000-0001-9898-6362), Rauno Põlluäär (ORCID 0009-0009-3586-0231), Kristjan Laht (ORCID 0009-0004-1276-761X), Renno Raudmäe (ORCID 0009-0008-5967-1382), Alvo Aabloo (ORCID 0000-0002-0183-1282), Karl Kruusamäe (ORCID 0000-0002-1720-1509)
Source:
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. 2024 17:1325-1338.
Availability:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854. Tel: 732-981-0060; Web site: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4620076
Peer Reviewed:
Y
Page Count:
14
Publication Date:
2024
Document Type:
Fachzeitschrift Journal Articles<br />Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors:
Teaching Methods, Robotics, Programming, Computer Science Education, Task Analysis, Computer Simulation, Learning Management Systems, Computer Software
DOI:
10.1109/TLT.2024.3381858
ISSN:
1939-1382
Entry Date:
2024
Accession Number:
EJ1420424
Database:
ERIC

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Teaching robotics with the robot operating system (ROS) is valuable for instating good programming practices but requires significant setup steps from the learner. Providing a ready-made ROS learning environment over the web can make robotics more accessible; however, most of the previous remote labs have abstracted the authentic ROS developer environment either for didactical or technological reasons, or do not give the possibility to program physical robots. In this article, we present a remote web lab that employs virtual network computing and Docker to serve in-browser desktop workstations, where learning tasks can be completed on both the physical and simulated robots. The learners can reserve access to the remote lab through a learning management interface, which also includes tools for administering the remote lab. The system allows anyone to experiment with ROS without configuring any software locally and was successfully trialed in an online ROS course.

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