Development of an Autonomous Mobile Robot with an Arm as a Teaching Material

Abstract

We describe a control board for an autonomous mobile robot with an arm as a teaching material we have developed and evaluation of it.Using our control board and programming language ldquoDolittlerdquo in technology education, we thought that students could learn systems that work with mechanics, electricity and computers through integrating manufacturing and programming. So we established a curriculum for junior high school students to learn systems we wanted to teach with an autonomous mobile robot with an arm as a teaching material. In this paper, we will report a conducted test to evaluate our lessons in a junior high school. As a result, our technology education curriculum satisfies requirements for students that have more incentive to learn the concept of systems.