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From Here to Mars and Back with Robotics |
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LEGO robotics has gone cyber science. |
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The
LEGO CITY at Marshall University is ready for remote sensing. The LEGO computers can be programmed
over the Internet to run and gather data from you home or school. Run the monorail, have it remain at the
station long enough for safe boarding, then move it on to the next. Data log the number and time of the
stops. Keep count of the cars through the intersection, Do the entire information gathering
without having to stand around for the count. Us the programming that
transportation professionals and NASA uses. SENSORS CITY is part the Science and Engineering NASA Site of
Remote Sensing (SENSORS) of Tufts University. |
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Red Rover Davis Creek |
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School Board of Education |
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NASA |
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PTA |
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Red Rover to other schools |
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Space Science |
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Star Shine |
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NASA TV |
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NASA SCIENCE |
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RoboLab programming |
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Transportation at Nick J. Rahall, II
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SENSORSCITY |
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Red Rover Red Rover |
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Classroom projects |
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Internet connections |
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Internet Rocket Launch by LEGO Robotics |
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RoboLab |
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Classroom projects |
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Internet connection |
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Remote sensing |
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Red Rover |
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In Class |
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Among classes |
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Among schools |
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To other states |
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With the world |
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RoboLab |
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In class small groups |
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In class large group |
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Systems Engineering |
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Small groups |
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Projects coordinated together |
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Ideas |
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Planning |
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Resources |
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People working together |
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Continuing communication between continents |
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Starter Sets |
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Cities and |
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Transportation |
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Other |
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Weeklong |
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Saturdays |
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Practice for Red Rover Goes to Mars |
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After school Play |
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Groups worked on parts and then brought it all
together |
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Programming was a group effort |
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High School where Homer Hickam went |
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Robotics and Red Rover |
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Internet connect with middle and elementary
schools |
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Planning with LEGO rocket |
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Summer picnic |
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Robotics and Red Rover to Big Creek |
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Rockets in class |
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Rocket Launch |
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Elementary |
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Middle |
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High school |
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Planning with LEGO rocket |
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Summer picnic |
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Robotics and Red Rover to Big Creek |
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Rockets in class |
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Rocket Launch |
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Housed at Nick J. Rahall, II Appalachian
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SENSORSCITY NASA remote sensing site |
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Red Rover site |
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Getting data remotely appeared to be easy
for three groups of 6th graders. |
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From their computers in their rooms, the
students logged onto http://www.marshall.edu/LEGO. They checked out some of
the pictures of what some of their classmates have done on the current
year. They clicked the LEGO camera
link to see a live picture of the LEGO CITY. |
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Clicking on SENSORSCITY link,
http://SENSORSCITY.marshall.edu, each group went to work. They made an
account with a name and password they would remember, checked out the
schedule and signed up for a time slot. Some chose programs to run from
those at the site at
http://sensorscity.marshall.edu/city/pages/vi while they looked through the pictures
and descriptions of the scenarios. |
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Others wrote or changed programs using the
RoboLab they had. In one room they also watched and operated the CITY with
Red Rover soft ware. See instructions to try out Red Rover at the City. The
fun came in submitting missions to SENSORS CITY and watching the monorail
move while watching over the Internet on the live camera. The little car
models moving traffic. The data
that comes back over the internet as a graph makes it much easier to
compute the car rate. |
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Local Schools |
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Nick J. Rahall,II Appalachian Transportation
Institute at Marshall University |
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Schools through out Appalachia |
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Sensors |
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Motors and lights |
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Multi-tasking |
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Structures |
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A car, a monorail and other transportation are
available for Teleoperation at the LEGO SENSORS City since September of
2001. |
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From the Red Rover Red Rover side you can
operated the other monorail and gate. |
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The live view on http://legocamera.marshall.edu
shows the end of the CITY that can be programmed over the internet by
RoboLab. |
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Through the Red Rover Red Rover software you can
operate and see the the view from the opposite side. |
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Install software for earth site or buy and use
Mars site |
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CONNECT to Lego.marshall.edu |
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Use direction buttons to operate |
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Run programs |
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Science and Engineering NASA Site of Remote Sensing |
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City Transportation |
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Nick J. Rahall, II
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Marshall University |
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Linda Hamilton
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http://www.marshall.edu/LEGO |
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http://SENSORSCITY.marshall.edu |
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Science and Engineering NASA Site of Remote Sensing |
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City Transportation |
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Nick J. Rahall, II
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Marshall University |
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Linda Hamilton
hamilton@marshall.edu |
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