Introductory Computer Science with Robots

Book One

Volume

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 21

Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition Abstracts

Starting in the fall of 2005 our department began a large-scale effort to incorporate hands-on robotics in many of our courses, including our introductory computer science sequence. This followed the establishment of a departmental robotics laboratory and the purchase of a number of different robots. Our efforts include testing our projects and surveying students about their satisfaction with robots as well as significant software development of an algorithmic programming environment for robotics (Robotran) and an associated robot simulator.