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Self-balancing Controllable Robots in Education: A Practical Course for Bachelor Students

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Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2011)

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We present a framework for a programming course for undergraduate computer science students. The technical motivation is to implement a two-wheeled self-balancing controllable robot. Advanced requirements make it a full-grown software project. The emphasis of this course is on one hand to teach basic concepts of software programming. The students work in groups of five and each student is assigned a role, which is typical for the software development process. On the other hand, the course is intended to give some basic hands-on experience in control theory.

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  1. Embedded Software Laboratory, RWTH Aachen, Ahornstrae 55, 52074, Aachen, Germany

    Paul Hänsch, John Schommer & Stefan Kowalewski

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Informationsmanagement im Maschinenbau, RWTH Aachen, Zentrum für Lern- und Wissensmanagement, Dennewartstraße 27, 52068, Aachen, Germany

    Sabina Jeschke

  2. School of Creative Technologies, Intelligents Systems and Biomedical Robotics Group, University of Portsmouth, Eldon Building, Winston Churchill Avenue, PO1 3QL, Portsmouth, UK

    Honghai Liu

  3. ZLW/IMA, RWTH Aachen, Dennewartstraße 27, 52068, Aachen, Germany

    Daniel Schilberg

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Hänsch, P., Schommer, J., Kowalewski, S. (2011). Self-balancing Controllable Robots in Education: A Practical Course for Bachelor Students. In: Jeschke, S., Liu, H., Schilberg, D. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7102. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25489-5_29

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