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MOOC on the Art of Grasping and Manipulation in Robotics: Design Choices and Lessons Learned

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Robotics in Education (RiE 2018)

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Abstract

This paper presents guidelines for designing a MOOC on Advanced Robotics topics based on the authors’ experience in creating an on-line course on The Art of Grasping and Manipulation in Robotics. After a revision of the main MOOCs and video lectures about Robotics that are available on-line, we present our course and describe the preliminary feedback we gathered from a group of Master students.

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Notes

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    www.therobotreport.com/10-biggest-challenges-in-robotics/.

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    hades.mech.northwestern.edu/index.php/Modern_Robotics_Videos.

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    https://www.edx.org/course?search_query=robotics.

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    sirslab.dii.unisi.it/MOOC/index.html.

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We gratefully acknowledge the funding provided by “The MathWorks, Inc.” for the development of the MOOC.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Maria Pozzi, Monica Malvezzi & Domenico Prattichizzo

  2. Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy

    Maria Pozzi, Monica Malvezzi & Domenico Prattichizzo

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  1. Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Vienna, Austria

    Wilfried Lepuschitz

  2. Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Vienna, Austria

    Munir Merdan

  3. Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Vienna, Austria

    Gottfried Koppensteiner

  4. Slovak University of Technology (STU), Bratislava, Slovakia

    Richard Balogh

  5. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    David Obdržálek

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Pozzi, M., Malvezzi, M., Prattichizzo, D. (2019). MOOC on the Art of Grasping and Manipulation in Robotics: Design Choices and Lessons Learned. 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_7

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