Using robots and contract learning to teach cyber-physical systems to undergraduates

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 116-120

  Crenshaw, Tanya Lee Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; educational robots; networked control systems; real time systems; robot programming

Indexed keywords

CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (CPSS); EDUCATIONAL ROBOT; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS; MONITOR AND CONTROL; PHYSICAL WORLD; PROJECT DESIGNS; ROBOTICS EDUCATION; WIRELESS CARDS;

EDUCATION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TEACHING; TESTBEDS;

NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84873414449     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2012.2217967     Document Type: Article

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