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Towards a virtual work-bench for robotics training

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Jiming Liu
Affiliation:
Department of Computing Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, 224 Waterloo Road, Kowloon (Hong Kong), jiming@comp.hkbu.edu.hk

Summary

Learning in the age of information superhighway necessitates a properly-developed efficient vehicle that is not only powerful in directing users to the needed information or to situate in a reality through virtual settings, but also controllable at the various comfortable paces. The goal of this project is to explore a new on-line medium for users to navigate at their own pace in the structured cyberspace—knowledge space composed of concepts, systems design, application-oriented case studies, up-to-date industrial news (trends and product review), and on-line robotic systems, and to use it as a robotics work-bench for conducting controllable experiments/simulations. Through such an electronic learning medium, users will be able to acquire a global outlook as well as an integrated understanding of modern robotics in a manner that is low-cost, time-and-place-free, and student-centered.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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