Thorsten Belker and Dirk Schulz

Robot Soccer - A Second Year Practical Course on Mobile Robotics

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Edutainment Robotic

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Abstract

One problem in the education of university students in the methods and techniques used to program autonomous mobile robots often is the complexity of the robots' control systems. On the one hand, a large effort is necessary to understand these systems, in order to be able to extend them. On the other hand, using these systems a student is hardly ever confronted with the fundamental problems of mobile robot control: the interpretation of noisy sensors and the problems caused by imprecise effectors.

For these reasons, we decided to use a simpler platform for educational purposes. We suggest to use LEGO MINDSTORMS robots to make second year students familiar with the basic problems and methods in mobile robotics. In addition, we use a ceiling-mounted camera to obtain robot position information. This allows to also teach the students the basic techniques of plan-based robot control. Robot soccer is a challenging domain to apply the learned techniques. In this paper, we introduce the experimentation environment of a course which will be held in the winter semester 2000/2001 at the University of Bonn and which is intended to be continued in the following semesters.

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Bibtex

@InProceedings{Belker00ER,
  author =       {T. Belker and D. Schulz},
  title =        {Robot Soccer - A Second Year Practical Course on Mobile Robotics},
  booktitle =    {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Edutainment Robotic},
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  year =         {2000},
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