关键词： education   robotics   framework   competition   arena  

摘要： Educational robotics involves using robots as an educational tool to provide a long term, and progressive learning activity, to cater to different age group. The current concern is that, using robots in education should not be an instance of a one-off project for the sole purpose of participating in a competitive event. Instead, it should be a sustainable long-term progression spanning the primary school to pre-university level. This article presents a framework for robotics using a multiphase approach to enhance user learning in a competitive arena.

关键词： 机器人竞赛   上海市   中小学   教育委员会   电化教育馆   教育局局长   徐汇区   教育集团  

摘要： 2013年5月18日、19日“2013年上海市中小学机器人竞赛”在上海市中国中学顺利举行。本次赛事由上海市教育委员会指导、上海市电化教育馆和徐汇区教育局主办、上海市中国中学承办。上海市教育委员会副主任印杰、徐汇区政协副主席周秀芬、上海远程教育集团副主任王宏、上海市电化教育馆馆长王民、徐汇区教育局局长庄小凤、上海市教育委员会基教处副处长周增为.

关键词： 机器人   动力学分析   ADAMS软件  

摘要： 确立电机和减速器的型号及各轴的运动参数是机器人设计过程中非常重要的技术环节。本文以码垛机器人为例,介绍如何通过ADAMS软件对机器人进行前处理、动力学分析及后处理,从而获得机器人运动轴的运动技术参数,为电机和减速器的选择提供了理论依据。

关键词： 负重外骨骼机器人   结构设计   动力学仿真   步态分析  

摘要： 介绍了人体下肢骨骼结构以及人体步态数据,并在此基础上创建了下肢外骨骼机器人的零件模型及其装配体模型,然后将装配体模型导入到***软件中,进行运动学和动力学仿真。仿真结果表明:该外骨骼机器人结构合理,能够保证机构运动的灵活性与穿着舒适性;其次是动力学仿真结果反映了外骨骼机器人各关节处所受载荷的变化规律。

关键词： embedded systems   FPGA   LabVIEW   mechatronics   mobile robots   project-based learning  

摘要： This paper discusses our project-based teaching and learning approach to infuse robotics education into our Control and Instrumentation programme at the KFUPM university. In the last two years, various practical projects were assigned to students either as course projects or as capstone design projects in the area of control engineering using the National Instruments (NI) embedded robotic platform. The assigned projects focus on designing and equipping the robotic platform with environment-sensing (light, temperature and sound) capabilities, control operations for path planning and obstacle avoidance. Using the NI platform as a test bed for our teaching approach has resulted in the design and implementation of a successful prototype that enables students to experiment with various sensing, control and communication techniques on this platform, thus turning it into an intelligent mobile robot capable of implementing complex and computationally demanding control and estimation algorithms. Finally, the survey we conducted to assess the educational content, and value to students, of our proposed approach shows that our strategy has been so far fruitful and gives us ample encouragement to pursue it and develop it further.

关键词： 3D printers, Mechanical design   Open hardware   Open source   Software development   Object oriented programming   Open robotics  

摘要： For many years robotics has been benefited from the open source community. Software community projects like Player, Stage, Gazebo, ROS, or OpenCV are present in most robotic applications. In recent years this trend has also been initiated among electronic and mechanical developments (open hardware). The Arduino development platform is a good example of a successful hardware project with a great community of developers and users around it. The apparition of personal 3D printers is bringing the open source philosophy to the fabrication of physical things as well. This new technology is in need of new designing tools to take advantage of it. In this paper we are presenting the C++ Object Oriented Mechanics Library (OOML), a tool to design mechanical components, taking into account the needs and requirements of these emerging technologies. These designs can be easily shared, reused, and modified. The OOML brings together the advantages of (1) modelling things through code, (2) the object oriented programming paradigm, and (3) the power of C++. In the OOML, mechanical parts are described as geometrical combinations of basic primitives. Once a part is defined, fabrication files can be generated in order to print, or mechanize it. Models could also be used for simulation, visualization, structural analysis, etc.

关键词： Image-Guided Surgery   Medical Robotics   Robotic Rehabilitation   Robotic Surgery   Virtual Reality in Medicine  

摘要： Many research and development projects are being performed worldwide to develop new products and applications for computer-assisted and medical robotic systems. In this paper, an overview of selected state-ofthe-art applications of robotic technology in medicine is presented. Four key areas of image-guided surgery, virtual reality in medicine, surgical robots, and robotic rehabilitation systems, are studied. As well, current challenges in research and development are discussed.

关键词： ROBOTICS research  

摘要： The article presents information on the International Symposium on Robotics Research to be held from December 16 to 19, 2013 in Singapore.

关键词： Computer-assisted surgery   robotic endoscope   surgical robots   navigation   surgical planning  

摘要： Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is the latest surgery paradigm in which the abdominal cavity is accessed via the body's natural orifice, e.g., vagina, mouth, etc. Compared with traditional laparoscopic surgery, NOTES completely eliminates the skin incision and therefore benefits the patients in several aspects such as less post-operative pain, shorter recovery period, fewer complications, etc. Due to the unique characteristics of NOTES, instruments for traditional laparoscopic surgery are not suitable for NOTES and hence novel hardware design is necessary for facilitating system development. This paper gives an overview of the state of the arts in the development of surgical instruments for NOTES, particularly with a focus on the promising robotic endoscopes.