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A Review on Effective Mobile Robot Educator and Mediator

Aarti Gupta, Neeraj Sharma

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Sage is a robot which is installed in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History as a full-time autonomous member of the staff. Its goal is to provide educational content to museum visitors to augment their museum experience. most of the applications of robotic technology to education have mainly focused on supporting the teaching of subjects that are closely related to the Robotics field, such as robot programming, robot construction, or mechatronics. Moreover, most of the applications have used the robot as an end or a passive tool of the learning activity, where the robot has been constructed or programmed This paper discusses all aspects of the related research and development. The functional obstacle avoidance system, which departs from the conventional occupancy grid-based approaches, is described. Sage’s topological navigation system, using only color vision and iodometric information, is also described. Long-term statistics provide a quantitative measure of performance over a nine-month trial period. The process by which Sage’s educational content and personality were evaluated and created in association with the museum’s Divisions of Education and Exhibits is explained. Finally, the ability of Sage to conduct automatic long-term parameter adjustment is presented. In this position paper, we present our view as a starting point for the management of this interaction style

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijra.v3i1.345

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