TY - GEN
T1 - Interactive Learning of Mobile Robots Kinematics Using ARCore
AU - Mallik, Abhidipta
AU - Kapila, Vikram
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors thank the students who took part in the user-study experiments. This work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation grants ITEST DRL: 1614085, DRK-12 DRL: 1417769, and RET Site EEC: 1542286.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/11/20
Y1 - 2020/11/20
N2 - Recent years have witnessed several educational innovations to provide effective and engaging classroom instruction with the integration of immersive interactions based on augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR). This paper outlines the development of an ARCore-based application (app) that can impart interactive experiences for hands-on learning in engineering laboratories. The ARCore technology enables a smartphone to sense its environment and detect horizontal and vertical surfaces, thus allowing the smartphone to estimate any position in its workspace. In this mobile app, with touch-based interaction and AR feedback, the user can interact with a wheeled mobile robot and reinforce the concepts of kinematics for a differential drive mobile robot. The user experience is evaluated and system performance is validated through a user study with participants. The assessment shows that the proposed AR interface for interacting with the experimental setup is intuitive, easy to use, exciting, and recommendable.
AB - Recent years have witnessed several educational innovations to provide effective and engaging classroom instruction with the integration of immersive interactions based on augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR). This paper outlines the development of an ARCore-based application (app) that can impart interactive experiences for hands-on learning in engineering laboratories. The ARCore technology enables a smartphone to sense its environment and detect horizontal and vertical surfaces, thus allowing the smartphone to estimate any position in its workspace. In this mobile app, with touch-based interaction and AR feedback, the user can interact with a wheeled mobile robot and reinforce the concepts of kinematics for a differential drive mobile robot. The user experience is evaluated and system performance is validated through a user study with participants. The assessment shows that the proposed AR interface for interacting with the experimental setup is intuitive, easy to use, exciting, and recommendable.
KW - ARCore
KW - augmented reality
KW - mobile robot kinematics
KW - robotics education
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U2 - 10.1109/ICRAE50850.2020.9310865
DO - 10.1109/ICRAE50850.2020.9310865
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85100348747
T3 - 2020 5th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering, ICRAE 2020
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - 2020 5th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering, ICRAE 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 5th International Conference on Robotics and Automation Engineering, ICRAE 2020
Y2 - 20 November 2020 through 22 November 2020
ER -