The robotic autonomy mobile robotics course: Robot design, curriculum design and educational assessment

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 103-127

  Nourbakhsh, Illah R ^a   Crowley, Kevin ^b   Bhave, Ajinkya ^a   Hamner, Emily ^a   Hsiu, Thomas ^c   Perez Bergquist, Andres ^a   Richards, Steve ^d   Wilkinson, Katie ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Gogoco LLC   (United States)

^d Acroname Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational robotics; Human robot interaction; Robot kit

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COSTS; CURRICULA; EDUCATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; STABILITY; SURVEYS;

CHALLENGES; CURRICULUM DESIGN; GOALS; ROBOT DESIGN;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 9144267857     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:AURO.0000047303.20624.02     Document Type: Article

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