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Development of Sensor and Block expandable Teaching-Aids-robot

센서 및 블록 확장 가능한 교구용 보조 로봇 개발

  • 심현 (순천대학교 교수학습개발센터) ;
  • 이형옥 (순천대학교 컴퓨터 교육과)
  • Received : 2017.01.06
  • Accepted : 2017.04.24
  • Published : 2017.04.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we design and implement an educational robot system that can use scratch education with the function of user demanding to perform robot education in actual school site in an embedded environment. It is developed to enable physical education for sensing information processing, software design and programming practice training that is the basis of robotic system. The development environment of the system is Arduino Uno based product using Atmega 328 core, debugging environment based on Arduino Sketch, firmware development language using C language, OS using Windows, Linux, Mac OS X. The system operation process receives the control command of the server using the Bluetooth communication, and drives various sensors of the educational robot. The curriculum includes Scratch program and Bluetooth communication, which enables real-time scratch training. It also provides smartphone apps and is designed to enable education like C and Python through expansion. Teachers at the school site used the developed products and presented performance processing results satisfying the missionary needs of the missionaries.

본 논문에서는 실제 학교현장에서 로봇교육을 수행하고 고민하는 수요자 요구의 기능을 갖춘 스크래치 활용교육이 가능한 교육용 로봇 시스템을 임베디드 환경에서 설계 및 구현하였다. 로봇 시스템의 기반이 되는 센싱 정보처리와 소프트웨어 설계 및 프로그래밍 실습 교육을 위한 피지컬 교육이 가능하도록 개발하였다. 시스템의 개발 환경으로는 CPU는 Atmega 328코어를 사용한 Arduino Uno기반 제품으로, 디버깅 환경은 Arduino Sketch 기반, 펌웨어 개발 언어는 C언어를, OS는 윈도우, Linux, Mac OS X를 사용하였다. 시스템 동작과정은 블루투스 통신을 이용하여 서버의 제어명령을 수신하여, 교육용 로봇의 다양한 센서를 구동시킨다. 교육과정으로는 스크래치 프로그램과 블루투스 통신으로 실시간 연동하여 스크래치 교육을 수행할 수 있도록 하였고, 스마트폰용 앱을 제공하여 환경에 구애받지 않으며, 확장을 통하여 C, 파이썬과 같은 교육이 가능하도록 설계하였다. 학교현장의 교사들이 개발된 제품을 사용해보고 일선교사의 요구에 만족할 만한 성능 처리 결과를 제시하였다.

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