ADVANCE YOUR STUDENTS INTO THE FUTURE SECONDARY EDUCATION
www.active-robots.com/aldebaran STEP INTO THE FUTURE CLASSROOM
Robotics is the fastest growing industry and most advanced technology used in education and research. The NAO humanoid robot is the ideal platform for MOTIVATE STUDENTS teaching or researching in Science and Technology. — IMPROVE LEARNING By using our NAO robotics platform, instructors and researchers EFFECTIVENESS stay current with major technical and commercial breakthroughs in — TEACH A JOB-CREATING FIELD programming and applied research.
WHY STUDY A HUMANOID ROBOT?
MAJOR INNOVATION MULTIDISCIPLINARY PLATFORM ROBOT & JOB-CREATING FIELD FOR TEACHING & RESEARCH FASCINATION — — — After Computer and Internet, Robotics is the new Computer sciences, mechanics, electronics, Humanoid robots have always fascinated people technological revolution. With ageing population and control are already at the core of the NAO especially students with new applications and and labour shortage, humanoid robots will be platform. Our curriculum used in conjunction incredible inventions. Now technology has made one of the solutions for people assistance thanks with NAO allows students to develop a structured a huge leap forward. Stemming from 6 years to their humanoid shape adapted to a world approach to finding solutions and adapting a wide of research, NAO is one of the most advanced made for humans. Educate students today using range of cross-sectional educational content. One humanoid robots ever created. He is fully the NAO platform for opportunities in robotics, example is for the instructor to assign students programmable, open and autonomous. engineering, computer science and technology. In to program NAO to grasp an object and lift it. The addition, Robotics and STEM education is critical in assigned task is immediately clear to students. preparing secondary students for higher education. Why might NAO have a problem with the execution For example, having a foundation in STEM concepts of the assigned task? What are the difficulties utilizing a robotics platform will enable students to or obstacles that NAO is having? Students are prepare for a future in engineering. naturally motivated to find answers to these questions.
ADVANTAGES OF USING NAO UK CUSTOMERS SECONDARY SCHOOLS FOR STUDENTS FOR TEACHERS — — — • King’s High School for Girls Hands-on experience by connecting theory Higher women student enrolment • North Liverpool Academy with practice to discover a wide range of fields Projects or labs based approach for teaching • ICT Development Services – Warwickshire linked to robotics such as computer science, Robotics and Computer Science mechanics, electronics or control. Improvement of achievement & learning HIGHER EDUCATION & RESEARCH Inspiring a high level of motivation & interest for effectiveness — engineer careers. For example: studying control • Imperial College, London to grasp objects or computing matrix & torso to get NAO moving become exciting projects • Oxford University Fostering team work, project management, • University of Bath problem solving and communication skills. • University of Wales • University of Ulster
www.active-robots.com/aldebaran SOLUTION FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION PRODUCTS
NAO T14 MECHATRONICS ANKLE TORSO ROBOT EDUCATIONAL KIT
NAO KEY FEATURES — Vision and audio: Sensors: sonars, accelerometers, gyrometers, text to speech, speech recognition, face detection FSR, MRE, motors, cameras. and recognition, object recognition, sound Natural motion reflexes: anti self collision, detection and localisation... resource manager, fall manager (NAO protects himself in case of fall), smart stiffness (power NAO H25 optimisation during moves) HUMANOID ROBOT
RESOURCES NAO-BASED LABS SESIONS & PROJECTS EXAMPLES
PROJECT FOR STUDENTS LABS FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE — — In universities or schools using NAO, students and At beginner level NAO platform can be used to discover EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL teachers are developing projects such as: how to mimic algorithmic or Boolean logics basics. At an advanced — a student’s body posture, navigate through a room or level, use NAO to teach object oriented, embedded or DESIGN DOCUMENTS recognise objects. real time programming… — LABS FOR CONTROL LABS FOR MECHANICS/ELECTRONICS SERVICES & ACCESSORIES — — At beginner level, you can use the ankle kits to define At beginner level, you can redesign basic mechanical the control law of a two DOF system. At advanced level, parts using NAO CAD files as well as work on torque use NAO platform to define complex control mixing computation or sensors study. At advanced level, vision/motion/audio. students can use their math skills to perform matrix computation to work on NAO kinematics… www.active-robots.com/aldebaran SOFTWARE SUITE & SDK CHOREGRAPHE SIMULATOR C VISUAL PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE S 3D PHYSICAL SIMULATOR
THANKS TO LIBRARY OF ACTION BOX, YOU CAN CREATE THIS 3D SIMULATOR ENABLES YOU TO PROGRAM NAO IN BEHAVIOURS WITH A SIMPLE DRAG AND DROP OF BOXES! A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT AND VALIDATE BEHAVIOURS — — Choregraphe enables researchers to program without mastering any The 3D simulation engine allows you to test your developments on a virtual code and lets students discover the general logic and the key concepts NAO without monopolising the real NAO. This allows you to study differences of programming. You can also introduce programming (C++, Python..) between virtual world and real environment. You can modify the simulation and explore various areas of research in robotics and investigate NAO’s workspace by inserting and modifying user defined objects. capabilities: vision, audio treatment, control, planning, navigation...
MONITOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT M ACCESS TO NAO’S DATA SDK DEVELOPER TOOL
MONITOR IS A CROSS-PLATFORM/ DESKTOP APPLICATION LANGUAGE -WINDOWS, GIVING ACCESS TO LINUX OR MAC-C++, NAO’S SENSORS AND PYTHON, JAVA, JOINTS DATA MATLAB, .NET, URBI — — You can easily measure and Our user-friendly and well graph all data from NAO’s documented SDK allows sensors and joints. For example, you can illustrate closed loop control by you to embed modules you developed into your robot and use them to graphing the angle command sent to a joint and the sensor position. You create elaborate behaviours. The NAO SDK comes with the compilation and can even see the current used by the motors. And, it’s essential to enable debugging tools you need. Our SDK is also compatible with many robotics students to understand the basic concepts used in the various disciplines development platforms and languages. interlinked with robotics. www.active-robots.com/aldebaran TACTILE SENSORS • • MICROPHONES
INFRARED SENSORS • • HD CAMERAS
SPEAKERS •
• PREHENSIBLE HANDS
• ULTRASONIC SENSORS
TACTILE SENSORS • • INERTIAL UNITS
FORCE SENSITIVE SENSORS •
BUMPERS •
— INTEL ATOM CPU EMBEDDED — UP TO 25 DEGREES OF FREEDOM —
TESTIMONIALS
WHAT TEACHERS SAY ABOUT NAO WHAT STUDENTS SAY ABOUT NAO — — One of the things that amazes me most is the Nao is used in Education with student projects It brings a little more fun to studies. It allows draw that NAO has for students; it draws women in image understanding […]. The project attracts us to go beyond theory and to apply our and minorities that have never shown interest in many students, and it nicely shows unexpected knowledge.” programming or robotics to the table. Students psychological effects, when humans directly are asking teachers to teach them math as interact with humanoid robots «in the loop»...” I can see and test directly what I did. Projects opposed to just having it forced on them by the we are making become interactive and tangible. teacher.” Pr. Axel Pinz Running programs on robot is impressive.” Graz University of Technology, Austria Mike Beiter I discovered other ways to work than through High School Computer Science teacher at computer. I would like to carry on in this field.” Central Career and Technical School in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. www.active-robots.com/aldebaran SHANGHAI OFFICE
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Aldebaran Robotics is a recognized world leader in the rapidly expanding field of humanoid robotics. Founded in 2005 with offices in France, China and the United States, Aldebaran launched the “NAO” robot which has become an internationally adopted platform used in education and research. More than 480 prestigious universities, labs and secondary schools worldwide are working daily with NAO. For the future, Aldebaran has embraced the ambitious goal of developing humanoid robots for use by the general public. More than 150 people at Aldebaran, including 40% in R&D, are involved in the development and production of NAO and future robots. Aldebaran believes that in coming years robots will positively impact our lives to the same extent as PCs and mobile devices did during the past 3 decades. Robots will change the way we learn, work and communicate. For example, a robotic companion to assist humans is no longer science fiction but a realistic answer to the requirements of an ageing society. Aldebaran Robotics is developing practical solutions for everyday life by conducting research in areas such as autistic child therapy, human-robot interaction and personal robotics.
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