A hands-on laboratory based approach to undergraduate robotics education

Author

Rawat, Kuldeep S. ; Massiha, Gholam H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Technol., Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

April 26-May 1, 2004

Firstpage

1370

Abstract

The paper describes the teaching experience gathered along four years, including the choices of robotics platform, simulator, typical experiments and projects we have conducted for students. We also discuss our efforts and plans to develop a hands-on laboratory course for the education in Robotics and Automation. The course is designed to the multidisciplinary and can be offered for engineering and non-engineering students. In order to offer hands-on experience in operating the robots and design of manufacturing works cells, a fully-equipped robotics laboratory has been established to provide basic as well as advanced experiments, to address the needs of students at different education levels.

Keywords

control engineering education; educational courses; laboratories; robots; automation education; engineering students; hands on laboratory course; multidisciplinary course; nonengineering students; robotics laboratory; robotics platform; simulation tools; simulator; undergraduate robotics education; Computer industry; Education; Educational institutions; Educational robots; Electrical equipment industry; Laboratories; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing industries; Robotics and automation; Service robots;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2004. Proceedings. ICRA '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8232-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2004.1308015

Filename

1308015