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Since robots become increasingly ubiquitous and system complexity increases, teaching university students in robotics is essential for modern studies in computer science. This work thus presents the education curriculum around the Autonomous Mini Robot (AMiRo) as a solution to this challenge. The goal is to provide insights to the various fields related to robotics and allow students to specialize in a wide range of topics, depending on their interests. Concept as well as platform have been evaluated and the results reveal a generally positive feedback as well as some issues, for which according solutions are proposed.
T. Schöpping and T. Korthals—First two authors contributed equally to lectures and exercises of this research/work.
This research/work was supported by the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology ‘CITEC’ (EXC 277) at Bielefeld University, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
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Schöpping, T., Korthals, T., Hesse, M., Rückert, U. (2019). AMiRo: A Mini Robot as Versatile Teaching Platform. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 829. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97085-1_18
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