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NFC Robotrainer
Ilya Voevodin
Astrakhan State University
Head of Internet Technologies Dpt.
Instructor
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Agenda / content
> Project Idea and Background
> Innovations and Benefits
> Who are we?
> Project Description
> Training Suggestions
> Building Consortium
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Speaker name
NFC Robotrainer
Project idea
Provide care and training support for children with disabilities
with
inexpensive
robot-supported
artificial
limited
environment.
Why bother?
There are many children with disabilities in the world who
don’t receive normal education and don’t adapt to the
environment because there are the problems with availability
of appropriate tutor, high educational costs, imperfect hostel
abilities.
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Speaker name
NFC Robotrainer
What is novel about it?
1. Flexible maintainable robot-supported environment that
implements various training programs;
2. Monitoring of children behavior by means of sensing
abilities of robot-supported environment.
Who will benefit and how?
1. Children;
2. Parents;
3. Tutors;
4. Educational institutes and R&D centers;
5. Researchers of children’s behavior, children’s
psychologists.
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Speaker name
NFC Robotrainer
Who am I?
I am the senior researcher in mobile robot control systems
development in the Astrakhan State University.
We have the high competent commands that specialize in
microprocessor control systems development, database
development, wireless networks and system integration.
Also, we have commands of researchers in children training
domain.
But we need extra competence in various domains of
robotics, sensing and technical vision systems.
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Speaker name
NFC Robotrainer
• Hardware and software system of training children with
disabilities to discern the colors, forms and symbols with
the help of robot that identifies the objects and orients by
NFC/RFID or FlashCode tags.
• Consists of robot that able to catch and transfer the items
(special colored and formed toys with imprinted images
on theirs surface and built-in information tags), PDA that
identifies tags by built-in reader, computer that controls
the training programs and (optionally) PDA for robot
control by a teacher.
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Speaker name
NFC Robotrainer
• Robotic system that uses information tags for recognition
the type and character of item and navigates the robot in
the training area by the orthogonal matrix of tags.
• Increases the clearness of children teaching, makes the
teaching more interactive and visual, attracts children to
studying process because of using interactive playing
forms of education with innovative technology application.
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Speaker name
NFC Robotrainer
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Speaker name
Architecture of Prototype
Robot Control System
Building
of the route
forward/left/right/
stop/up/down
Command
analysis
busy
done
ready
Robot’s Interface
Controlling
computer’s interface
ok/error
Autonomous searching of object
Robot control
program
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Speaker name
Controlling
computer
NFC Robotrainer
NFC Robotrainer application is a special education trainer
system for young children with disabilities. NFC Robotrainer
allows teaching children to distinguish the colors, forms and
symbols imprinted on surface of special items like children's
cubes. Education may use one of the various methods, such
as described below.
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Speaker name
NFC Robotrainer
Prototype of NFC Robotrainer uses the Bioloid™ robotic
solution (Robotis Co., Ltd) to create the programmable
interactive robot with actuators and sensors and to develop
the software to control it. Robot communicates with training
computer via wireless ZigBee interface. Robot carries the
PDA or cell phone with built-in NFC-reader that
communicates with NFC/RFID tags when they appear within
the bounds of communication range.
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Speaker name
NFC Robotrainer
Training computer receives and interprets commands from
teacher or interprets whole education program automatically
and transfers to robot specific instructions to move the
specified items. Also the training computer receives the
information from robot's PDA/cell phone about tag recognition,
navigates the robot and controls its behavior.
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Speaker name
NFC Robotrainer
Computer navigates robot between NFC/RFID tag designated
points. Thus, robot navigates within the training area. Robot's
PDA or cell phone with built-in NFC-reader are also
programmed to identify an item by NFC/RFID tag and transfer
information to trainer computer via Bluetooth / WiFi wireless
interface. Computer instructs the robot to catch item and
move it to new destination point. The additional PDA can play
the role of training computer with better mobility and teacher
convenience.
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Speaker name
NFC Robotrainer
Education process with the help of NFC Robotrainer may use
the various methods. One of the possible methods described
below. Teacher selects the item and demonstrates it to child.
Then robot finds the item and transfers it to a new position.
Child takes the item and puts it to a subsequent position. If
child’s selection is right, robot will catch the item and show if
the child’s decision is correct.
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Speaker name
Building Consortium
Potential partners:
ELIKO, Estonia – embedded systems (Alar Kuusik)
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain – image processing,
pattern recognition (Aleksandar Jevitć)
National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland
ontologies, environment modeling (Mariusz Pajer M.Sc)
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Speaker name
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Thank you
Ilya Voevodin
Phone: +7(8512) 61-08-40
Fax: +7(8512) 54-90-99
e-mail: [email protected]
Astrakhan State University www.aspu.ru
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