ICRA-04 Workshop on "Educational Robotics"
April 27, 2004

Full day workshop

Organisers: Henrik I Christensen (hic@nada.kth.se)
  Bernardo Wagner (wagner@rts.uni-hannover.de)
  Oussama Khatib (ok@robotics.stanford.edu)

Motivation:

Robotics offers an excellent platform for education on issues related to control, software engineering, sensory fusion, planning and human-robot interaction. Today there is already a wide variety of educational programmes and courses related to robotics in general. The range of methods used in teaching of robotics and the integration into curricula such as ME, CS, EE ... is quite varied. At the same time excellent teaching material, platforms for teaching and education material is becoming available. The aim of this workshop is to discuss the various approaches to teaching of robotics, to survey platforms for basic and advanced education of robotics and investigate the potential for setup of a repository on sharing of teaching material across the field. We expect the programme to involve a total of 8-10 presentations related to (List of topics to be covered):

Schedule: ( Presentations & Lecture material is here )

08.45 Introduction (Wagner/Khatib/Christensen)
09.00 Project Oriented Teaching of Autonomous Robotics (T. Balch)
09.30 Engineering Education through Hands-On Robotics (R. Siegwart)
10.00 Design and evaluating educational robotics curricula (I. Nourbakhsh)
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 RoboCup as an educational tool (M. Asada)
11.30 LEGO Mindstorms and I-BLOCKS as Edutainment Tools (H. Hautop-Lund)
12.00 Lunch
13.30 Haptic Laboratories for Teaching Dynamic Systems (A. Okamura)
14.00 Modular Educational Robotics (U. Gerecke)
14.30 Force control and dynamic robotics (F. Conti)
15.00 Coffee break
15.30 Robotics Education in Europe (A. Casals)
16.00 ICRA-04 Session on Education & RAS Education Outlook (P. Fiorini)
16.30 Dicusssion
  • Curricula development
  • Shared tools
  • WeBook
  • Out reach

Target Audience:

Robotics educators at universities through out the community

Relation to earlier workshops and sessions:

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Last updated: April 18, 2004 11:29 by Henrik I Christensen (hic@nada.kth.se)