Computer Science Lectures
at Northwestern University 

Illah R. Nourbakhsh

Carnegie Mellon University

    presenting
 
The Personal Rover Project

Monday, April 28  - 12:30-1:30pm
1890 Maple Ave - Rm 381

The Personal Rover Project is a comprehensive effort to develop and deploy a low-cost rover platform for diverse environments, including the home. This rover serves as an exploration-centered, creative outlet for children as they shape the rover's daily and weekly activities.  We argue that such a personal rover will excite and inspire users about math, science and engineering.

Early project results span low-cost enabling technologies such as CMUcam, prototype mechanisms capable of climbing steps greatly exceeding wheel diameter, and educational study results following a 30-student test course, Robotic Autonomy, that we taught at NASA/Ames this summer.

In this talk, I will describe project activities, including interaction design, platform research, user testing and educational evaluation.  This project is part of the Toy Robots Initiative, which I will introduce briefly.
See: www.cs.cmu.edu/~illah/EDUTOY

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