Undergraduate research in robotics and automation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Author

Spong, Mark W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Gen. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1996

fDate

11-13 Dec 1996

Firstpage

3910

Abstract

This paper describes a new course, Undergraduate Research in Robotics and Automation, developed by the author in the Department of General Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This course is intended to give undergraduate engineering students an exposure to the university research process that forms such a substantial part of the lives of their professors and graduate teaching assistants but which has been largely inaccessible and poorly understood by undergraduates. The course is built around the College of Engineering Robotics and Automation Laboratory. Several case studies are discussed from the initial offerings of the course

Keywords

control engineering education; educational courses; robots; software packages; Department of General Engineering; Undergraduate Research in Robotics and Automation; University of Illinois; graduate teaching assistants; professors; undergraduate engineering students; undergraduate research; university research process; Education; Educational institutions; Educational robots; Engineering students; Instruments; Laboratories; Manufacturing; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation; Student members;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 1996., Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Kobe

ISSN

0191-2216

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3590-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.1996.577291

Filename

577291