Title :
“Competing” for a robotics education
Author :
Murphy, Robin R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
fDate :
6/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A strategy for integrating robot design competitions into courses in order to maximize learning experience and promote intellectual development is presented. The use of competitions fosters students´ intellectual maturity, showing, inter alia, that there may be more than one correct answer to a problem
Keywords :
control engineering education; robots; intellectual development; intellectual maturity; learning experience maximization; robot design competitions; robotics education; Artificial intelligence; Computer vision; Education; Educational robots; Laboratories; Land vehicles; Legged locomotion; Mobile robots; Road vehicles; Robot vision systems;
Journal_Title :
Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE
