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- Robust Robotics Group at CSAIL
- Synchronized Position Hold Engage Reorient Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) project
- Andy's airplane group
Typical Characteristics of the classes are:
(1) Novice Users: Hobbyists and UROPs
- Age : Variable since the user could be novice to the robotic system at any age but a substantial chunk would be from late-teens or early 20s.
- Education : Well-educated individuals with analytical skills and ability to comprehend mathematical charts.
- Physical Limitations : Our user audience is one that is capable of being mobile on the robotic arena to justify the need for a mobile interface.
- Computer experience: Ability to operate a phone app interface, to operate the robot's software and initiate experiments via the computer. No prior programming or networks experience is necessary.
- Motivation: Motivated learners interested in learning about robotic system, controls and performance.
- Domain Experience : No prior experience with LCM or communication tools is expected.
- Application Experience : Ability to use a phone app and read analytical charts.
- Work Environment and Social Context: This user with work under a supervisor who has significant experience in a robotics lab in terms of software and hardware. He/she would be working on a specific subsystem in the lab possibly in collaboration with other novice users on the same or different subsystem. The work environment varies significantly depending on the type of robotics e.g. SPHERES works with experimental satellites on a laboratory glass table or in an epoxy floored clean room.
(2) Intermediate Users: Industry researchers and Visiting students to a Robotics Lab
- Age : Can vary from mid-20s to a variable age where-in the individual is a student in a Robotics Lab
- Education : Well-educated individuals with analytical skills and ability to comprehend mathematical charts. They would be highly motivated to learn about research tasks. Familiarity with the software and hardware is not expected.
- Physical Limitations : Our user audience is one that is capable of being mobile on the robotic arena to justify the need for a mobile interface.* Computer experience: This user experience varies from robotics software knowledge, Linux knowledge to none at all.
- Motivation: To learn about robotics systems.
- Domain Experience : May know comm tools like LCM is not expected to.
- Application Experience : Ability to use a phone app and read analytical charts.
- Work Environment and Social Context: This user with work in collaboration with a supervisor who has significant experience in a robotics lab in terms of software and hardware. They share interpretations of results with each other (i.e. among other researchers) and sharing tools. Environment noise level varies: one user operates a wind tunnel, another user operates a very loud air compressor and a third works in a clean room.
(3) Advanced users: Academia Researchers in Robotics
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