Multidisciplinary teamwork in a robotics course

Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 446-450

  Weinberg, Jerry B ^a   White, William W ^a   Karacal, Cem ^a   Engel, George ^a   Hu, Ai Ping ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross functional; Feedback control; Kinematics; Localization; Manipulators; Multidisciplinary; Navigation; Robotics; Sensors; Teamwork

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DYNAMICS; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; NAVIGATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL; LOCALIZATION; MULTIDISCIPLINARY; TEAMWORK;

CURRICULA;

EID: 20444468180     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1047124.1047488     Document Type: Conference Paper

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