Transcript Robots Can Wear Many Hats in the Computer Science Curriculum

Robots Can Wear Many Hats in
the Computer Science
Curriculum
Computer Science I
• Our course has a breadth first flavor and is
taught in Python
• Using the Lego RCX along with NQC
gives students the opportunity to see a
language in which variables are declared
and syntax is more complex
• It also introduces asynchronous behavior.
Artificial Intelligence
• Lego robots with Lejos
• Pyrorobotics simulators
• Traditional programming assignments
• All of these give students an opportunity to
implement lecture topics in manageable
projects.
Undergraduate Research
Machine learning with an AIBO
Replicate and extend ideas found in the
literature
• Reinforcement learning
• Gradient descent
Outreach
• Talks to middle school students
• Presentations to prospective science
students