Educational gaming system
AssigneeNational Taiwan Normal University
InventorsTing-Chia Hsu, Yu-Han Tseng, Shih-Chu Chen
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Abstract
An educational gaming system includes control cards, road pieces and a robotic device. Each of the control cards has a graphic corresponding to an instruction. The road pieces are arranged to form a road on which the robotic device is configured to move. The robotic device is communicable with an electronic device that executes an application program. The electronic device captures an image of the graphic of the control card, conducts a machine learning algorithm based on the image to obtain the instruction, and transmits the instruction to the robotic device. The robotic device obtains a road-piece signal value that is generated by scanning one of the road pieces, and performs movement based on the instruction and the road-piece signal value.
Claims8
An educational gaming system, adapted to be used with an electronic device, the electronic device including an image capturing module, said educational gaming system comprising:
- a plurality of control cards each of which has a control-card graphic corresponding to a control-card instruction;
- a plurality of road pieces which are to be arranged to form a road, and each of which is shaped as a square and has a piece background and a foreground pattern, where said piece background is colored with one color selected from among a light color and a dark color, and said foreground pattern is colored with the other one color among the light color and the dark color;
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- a mobile robotic device configured to move on the road formed by said road pieces, and including a communication unit, a driving unit, a sensing unit, and a processing unit that is electrically connected to said communication unit, said driving unit and said sensing unit;
- wherein said communication unit of said mobile robotic device is communicable with the electronic device that executes an application program (APP) customized for said educational gaming system, an image of said control-card graphic of one of said control cards to be captured by the image capturing module to enable the electronic device to
- conduct, by utilizing a supervised learning model contained in the APP with the image of said control-card graphic serving as input, a machine learning algorithm so as to obtain the control-card instruction corresponding to said control-card graphic, and
- transmit the control-card instruction thus obtained to said communication unit of said mobile robotic device;
- wherein said processing unit of said mobile robotic device is configured to obtain at least one road-piece signal value that is generated by said sensing unit by scanning one of said road pieces, and to control, based on the control-card instruction and the at least one road-piece signal value, said driving unit to drive a movement of said mobile robotic device;
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- wherein for each of said road pieces,
- said piece background is colored with the light color,
- said foreground pattern is colored with the dark color, said foreground pattern including four stripes that resemble rails and that are respectively parallel to four sides of said road piece, and further including four square blocks that are respectively located at four inner corners defined by intersections of said four stripes, and
- said sensing unit of said mobile robotic device includes two infrared sensors that are configured to respectively align with two of said four square blocks when said mobile robotic device is disposed on said road piece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.