Development of ROS programming controlling robots for primary school students
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The problem with learning advanced science for children is that the knowledge is highly abstract. Because children learn well when it comes to concrete things. This article presents the development of ROS robot programming for elementary school students. That children can write programs without having to write them on a computer but written on the table. The system consists of 2 parts 1) The ROS tangible programming and 2) mobile robots. The developed program gives children an idea and understanding of ROS programming and basic object-oriented programming concepts. From the evaluation it was found that Children can control robots with the ROS tangible programming to control the turtle's movement with a computer keyboard and display the turtle's movement on the computer screen. In addition, children also understand that the roscore command is a communication link between two commands that control the robot. Roscore is the main character (master) or leader, and the other two commands are subordinates (nodes). This makes children understand the concept of programming systems robots with the ROS programming which children have never learned and used before.
Keywords: Programming, Robot Operating System, Mobile robot, Elementary school students
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