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Webots

Typology
Technological
Resource description
Webots simulator is an open source and multi-platform desktop application applied to simulate robots. It provides a complete development environment to model, program and simulate robots. It has been designed for a professional use, and it is widely used in industry, education and research. It was developed by Cyberbotics Ltd. in 1998 and currently it is free to use. The main features aboutWebots is the combination of a modern graphical user interface (Qt), the ODE fork physics engine and the OpenGL rendering engine. The robot’s programming may be in C, C++, Python, Java, MATLAB and ROS. It can simulate a wide variety of robots as wheeled, industrial arms, bipeds, multi-legs, modular, automobiles, flying drones, autonomous underwater, tracked and aerospace
https://cyberbotics.com/
Sample of use in education with students with IDD
By offering a controlled environment to practice, simulations allow educators and students to experiment, receive feedback, and improve their skills without the immediate consequences of working with real-robots.
Difficulties to which it could be applied
Learning and Cognitive Challenges
  • Cognitive Abilities
  • Trouble understanding math problems
  • Reading, writing or maths challenges
Social Communication Challenges, Emotional Regulation
  • Sharing of interests, emotions, or affect
Social Communication Challenges
  • Cooperative Interaction
Repetitive Behaviors and Restricted Interests, Sensory Processing and Sensitivities
  • Specific sensory preferences
Repetitive Behaviors and Restricted Interests, Specialized Skills and Talents
  • Memory and attention to detail
  • Intense focus
Repetitive Behaviors and Restricted Interests
  • Specialized skills or talents
Emotional Regulation
  • Anxiety
  • Regulating Emotions
Executive Functioning and Flexibility, Repetitive Behaviors and Restricted Interests
  • Mental rigidity, need to follow routines
Executive Functioning and Flexibility, Learning and Cognitive Challenges
  • Time management
  • Sharing a common focus
Executive Functioning and Flexibility
  • Short attention span
  • Managing transition and adaption to changes and new situations
Emotional Regulation, Social Communication Challenges
  • Problems initiating and maintaining conversations
  • Making/Keeping friends
Learning Objetives
  • Cognitive and Behavioral Flexibility
  • Enhancing Sensory Regulation Strategies
  • Facilitating Peer Interaction and Social Interaction Skills
  • Improving Attention and focus
  • Improving knowledge application
  • Improving Social Communication Skills
  • Learning competences
  • Learning Engineering concepts
  • Learning Maths concepts
  • Learning Science concepts
  • Learning Technology concepts
  • Listening competences
  • Practical competences