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In this paper, we advance the thesis that educational robots can make a much larger contribution in the classroom than has hitherto been the case. However, to realise this potential, it is necessary to supply teachers with detailed guides for classroom robotic student activities for achieving specific curricular learning objectives. As illustration, we describe in detail three activities that use the capabilities of the inexpensive smartphone-based mobile robot Zorro developed by us.
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A floor turtle is a real robot moving on the floor as opposed to the LOGO-simulated turtle, which moves on the computer screen to do line drawings.
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This is because the motor also acts as a generator producing a voltage, the counter-electromotive force (EMF), that opposes the applied voltage, thereby diminishing the current through the motor.
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Sitte, J., Witkowski, U., Zandian, R. (2017). Learning with Small Autonomous Robots. In: Kim, JH., Karray, F., Jo, J., Sincak, P., Myung, H. (eds) Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 4. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 447. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31293-4_28
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