Integrating Robotics into Our Classrooms:

The iRobot Create Curriculum

Speaker: Kevin MartinezAcknowledgements:

Magdalina Medina, Intern Prof Winslow Burleson, MentorArizona Space Grant Symposium

Arizona State University, April 18, 2009

Presentation Outline

• Purpose of iRobot Curriculum

• Curriculum Summary

• Current Progress

iRobot Create Curriculum: Area of Impact in the Classroom

• Algorithmic Thinking

• Computer Programming – Novice-

Intermediate Level Java

• Peer to Peer Interaction

• Robotics

Why iRobot Create?

• Inexpensive

• Programming Flexibility

• Sensor Options

iRobot Create Curriculum: Overview

• Introduction to iRobot and Robotics– Elementary Java

Programming– CreateComm– Basic Motion– Using Sensor

Packages

• Terrain Mapping• iRobot the Pet

Robot

iRobot Create Curriculum: Sensor Focus

• Available Sensor Packages– Bump and Wheel-

Drop – Cliff and Wall

• Sensors and Programming– Commands– Cumulative

iRobot Create Curriculum:Current Progress

• The Current Curriculum– Ten Lessons

• Movement• Sensors

• Future Curriculum– Terrain Mapping– Pet Robot

THANK YOU

Questions?…

Practice Program