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A Practical Mobile Robotics Engineering Course Using LEGO Mindstorms

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Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2011 (EUROBOT 2011)

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Mobile robotics and autonomous systems are subjects of increasing interest in the curricula of engineering studies, being application domains of growing importance in leading research and industry trends. In order to fulfill this demand, we have designed a robotics course for students from different engineering degrees and backgrounds. The course includes basic ideas from main topics in mobile robotics, with an important practical component. During the course, each student team is provided with a LEGO Mindstorms kit to freely build a robot and develop several modules demonstrating the specific competences being taught. Complete integration of all modules is the last step towards participation in a final obstacle-race competition, which has been shown to be a very successful and motivating activity for the students. This paper summarizes the course content, goals and methodology and details the results obtained in the student contest performed in the recent years.

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  1. Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering, I3A, University of Zaragoza, Spain

    Ana C. Murillo, Alejandro R. Mosteo, Jose A. Castellanos & Luis Montano

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Malostranské náměstí 25, 118 00, Praha 1, Czech Republic

    David Obdržálek

  2. Electrical Engineering, SRH University of Applied Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany

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Murillo, A.C., Mosteo, A.R., Castellanos, J.A., Montano, L. (2011). A Practical Mobile Robotics Engineering Course Using LEGO Mindstorms. In: Obdržálek, D., Gottscheber, A. (eds) Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2011. EUROBOT 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 161. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21975-7_20

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