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Simulating mobile robots for undergraduate research

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Suranga Hettiarachchi,

Eli Cohen,

Timothy Willey,

Nathan SchmidtAuthors Info & Claims

Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 23, Issue 6

Pages 181 - 186

Published: 01 June 2008 Publication History

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Our objective is to promote scientific research among undergraduate students at Eastern Oregon University through the development of mobile robots. Simulating mobile robots in research is not a novel technique, but using simulated robots that utilize virtual physics or "Physicomimetics" [2] as a tool to promote undergraduate research is unique. This paper addresses the undergraduate research experience of designing and implementing a simulated mobile robot environment using a physics-based control algorithm.

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Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges Volume 23, Issue 6

June 2008

275 pages

ISSN:1937-4771

EISSN:1937-4763

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Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges

Evansville, IN, United States

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Published: 01 June 2008

Published in JCSC Volume 23, Issue 6

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Erkan ABarr JClear TIzu Cdel Alamo CMohammed HNadimpalli MSheard JKorhonen A(2018)Developing a Holistic Understanding of Systems and Algorithms through Research PapersProceedings of the 2017 ITiCSE Conference on Working Group Reports10.1145/3174781.3174786(86-104)Online publication date: 30-Jan-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3174781.3174786
Erkan ANewmark SOmmen N(2009)Exposure to research through replication of researchACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/1595496.156291641:3(114-118)Online publication date: 6-Jul-2009
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Erkan ANewmark SOmmen NBrézillon PRussell ILabat J(2009)Exposure to research through replication of researchProceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education10.1145/1562877.1562916(114-118)Online publication date: 6-Jul-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1562877.1562916

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