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Título del libro:
Título del capítulo: Robo-Surveillance of a Solar Park for a Workshop in Interdisciplinary Education

Autores UNAM:
VERONICA ESTHER ARRIOLA RIOS; RICARDO CESAR ARZATE TRUJILLO; JESUS ALEJANDRO FRANCO PIÑA; KARINA VIANEY PRADO OROPEZA;
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Año de publicación:
2024
Palabras clave:

Behavioral research; Bluetooth; Computer workstations; Educational robots; Engineering education; Integrated circuit design; Intelligent robots; Machine design; Mobile robots; Wi-Fi; Wireless local area networks (WLAN); Educative robot; Educative workshop design; Interdisciplinary education; Mechanical; Mobile robotic; Renewable energies; Robotic networks; Simple++; Solar parks; Undergraduate education; Students


Resumen:

The field of intelligent mobile robotics is highly interdisciplinary by nature, spanning interest from mechanical, electric, and electronic engineering to computer science, physics, cognition and neuroscience. Yet, there are few opportunities during undergraduate education to experience work and communication between students from these disciplines. For this reason, we devised a scenario where knowledge from these diverse disciplines could be demonstrated and used for experiments by students during a one-week workshop. This scenario consists of trials with two different robots. The first phase of the trials makes use of a simple differential robot where the basics of electronics, communications over WiFi and Bluetooth networks are taught. The second phase makes use of an omnidirectional robot whose task is to survey a solar park to detect dusty solar panels. Its job is only to navigate through the park detecting the panels and sending one photo of the panel to a nearby workstation. This workstation processes the images captured by the small robots to detect whether the panels in them are clean or dusty, using a U-net neural network. Here we report our experience on the first two editions of this interdisciplinary workshop. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.


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