• The Journal of Korean Institute for Practical Engineering Education
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.89-94
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• 2010

This paper proposes an educational robot game framework for novice students in k-12 to learn concepts of programming through interesting experiences. It is designed to be able to enjoy robot games without technical knowledge of robotics and programming. For this, in the proposed robot game framework, educational robots based on line-tracer are used and the programming APls that can be used for various educational programming languages are offered. And the proposed robot game framework also offers a game board to create several games with easy operations. Additionally, through experiments, it shows that novice students are able to create different games that have several game solutions for various programming using this robot game framework.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.311-312
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• 2009

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.499-500
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• 2008

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.159-168
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• 2008

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), based on already well-researched Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), has been under vigorous scrutiny since recent developments in robot technology. Robots may be more successful in establishing common ground in project-based education or foreign language learning for children than in traditional media. Backed by its strong IT environment and advances in robot technology, Korea has developed the world's first available e-Learning home robot. This has demonstrated the potential for robots to be used as a new educational media - robot-learning, referred to as 'r-Learning'. Robot technology is expected to become more interactive and user-friendly than computers. Also, robots can exhibit various forms of communication such as gestures, motions and facial expressions. This study compared the effects of non-computer based (NCB) media (using a book with audiotape) and Web-Based Instruction (WBI), with the effects of Home Robot-Assisted Learning (HRL) for children. The robot gestured and spoke in English, and children could touch its monitor if it did not recognize their voice command. Compared to other learning programs, the HRL was superior in promoting and improving children's concentration, interest, and academic achievement. In addition, the children felt that a home robot was friendlier than other types of instructional media. The HRL group had longer concentration spans than the other groups, and the p-value demonstrated a significant difference in concentration among the groups. In regard to the children's interest in learning, the HRL group showed the highest level of interest, the NCB group and the WBI group came next in order. Also, academic achievement was the highest in the HRL group, followed by the WBI group and the NCB group respectively. However, a significant difference was also found in the children's academic achievement among the groups. These results suggest that home robots are more effective as regards children's learning concentration, learning interest and academic achievement than other types of instructional media (such as: books with audiotape and WBI) for English as a foreign language.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.327-332
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• 2015

Educational robot was introduced as an effective educational tool is to foster scientific creativity and learn the basic principles of science are applied to change the configuration of the educational after-school learning kits for science education. SMEs as a tool to foster scientific creativity center and a variety of educational robot technology and the wide range of games for students and robotic technology development, existing e-Learning by downloading mp3 music or learning content for the robot, such as the provision of specialized content Although the technology is still being developed to take advantage of the professional community formation is insufficient side. Currently, one-point linkage drag Smart Touch control dynamic motor development does not need this motor development is possible for users to easily.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.549-557
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• 2021

In this research, we will use the existing OID sensor environment for smart robots, which are a type of educational robot, but we would like to propose that the problem of running be handled by a program. Maybe you have driving information We are building a driving test environment focusing on environment, position recognition, route planning, obstacle avoidance and path reset, and it is not the average final error rate, but the time when the error increases The experiment was conducted by a household that catches the moment of recalibration. Through the process, stable running results were obtained compared to the previous experiment. In this research, I think that it will be a development method that can improve the running performance of educational robots equipped with low-cost sensors currently on the market.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.155-161
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• 2006

Robots evolve from tools to information media since they generates information by interacting with human. As studies on robot-aided education are still in a starting phase, attempts need to be made to use robots for educational purposes and to investigate the effects of the use. It was showed that robot-aided learning was friendlier than other media assisted learning, and especially effective for motivating children. We developed the prototype robot Jenny that can help teachers as a educational media in class(i.e. as a T.A. robot, it can present robot contents on its chest to screen and explain about it when teacher asks). is a schoolmate for 5th or 6th grade children or an elder schoolmate for the rest. We performed the field trial at an elementary school. We carried out 9 classes for three subjects(english, korean, music) with -students in $4th{\sim}5th$ grade. They thought Jenny who was 13 years old as an elder schoolmate in 6th grade. Also, a significant difference was found in the interest and concentration of experimental groups from controlled groups.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.131-142
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• 2016

Recently, a variety of methodologies based on the use of educational coding robots have been proposed and experimented in newly emerging korean educational coding markets. Due to imprecise movement accuracy of the existing coding robots, however, such robots are mainly used as a toy. Inspired by these observations, we developed a simple adjustment method during robot movements, which is based on the observation results of 6 line-tracking sensors: 3 sensors in the center of a robot and other 3 sensors at the front. These sensors help to determine whether the robot is in the right location and whether it rotates as expected. Through the well-designed experiments, we report the effectiveness of our proposed solution: the average distance error of 1.57cm and the average degree error of 2.38 degree before and after complex movements. In near future, we hope our method to be popularly used in various educational coding robot platforms.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.922-932
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• 2018

Radial distance sensors are widely used for surveying and autonomous navigation. It is necessary to train the operation principle of these sensors and how to apply them. Although commercialization of radial distance sensor continues to be cost-effective through lower performance, but it is still expensive for educational purposes. In this paper, we propose a distance sensor module with object tracking using radial array of low cost phototransistor which can be used for educational robot. The proposed method is able to detect the position of a fast moving object immediately by arranging the phototransistor in the range of 180 degrees and improve the sensing angle range and track the object by the sensor rotation using the servo motor. The scan speed of the proposed sensor is 50~200 times faster than the commercial distance sensor, thus it can be applied to a high performance educational mobile robot with 1ms control loop.

• Journal of Practical Engineering Education
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.85-89
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• 2014

A variety of robot education comes out. However, robot associated with the image processing is insufficient. And it is difficult to various education through a robot. Image processing educational robot that is proposed is made by module type hardware, so it's convenient to assemble according to educational purposes with the robot. In image processing, the robot recognizes color and pattern and calculates angle and control four motors. Using the robot, you can learn image processing, how to use MCU and Encoder, related programs and motor control.