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| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2012 |
| Pages | 1072-1077 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| Event | 25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems, IROS 2012 - Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal Duration: 7 Oct 2012 → 12 Oct 2012 |
Publication series
| Name | IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems |
|---|---|
| ISSN (Print) | 2153-0858 |
| ISSN (electronic) | 2153-0866 |
Abstract
This paper presents a new university course combining theoretical lectures with a robot competition. The main intention is to offer a practical course including hands-on experiences being close to current research topics in the field of mobile robotics. For this purpose, a commercial mobile robot is equipped with state of the art sensors, allowing autonomous execution of manipulation tasks. The course consists of three thematical sections. At the beginning of each, lectures provide the theoretical background. On this basis, the participants are addressed to develop algorithms and to solve specific tasks, delivered in homework packages, self-reliantly or in a team. Finally, the developed software components need to be merged to solve a predefined scenario, e.g. autonomous part handling. At the end of a thematic section, students demonstrate their developed solutions within a challenge and explain their approaches in a presentation. Starting with teleoperation and object recognition, the RobotChallenge ends up with navigation in unknown terrain. Besides others, the participants acquire soft-skills, such as project and team management. Being carried out for the first time in winter term 2011/2012, the RobotChallenge successfully promotes profound understanding of mobile robotics that is applied during practical experiences. It turns out, that aspiring to win competions lead to a high motivation of the students w.r.t. development of appropriate solutions.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering(all)
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Computer Science(all)
- Software
- Computer Science(all)
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Computer Science(all)
- Computer Science Applications
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2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2012. 2012. p. 1072-1077 6385496 (IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems).
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