Introducing Robots

Abstract

This paper presents the Missouri S&T Introduction to Robotics course which exposes undergraduate and graduate students to technologies behind robotics projects ranging from the historical to the state of the art, as well as fundamentals on robotics architectures, sensing, navigation, and control. Topics covered included basic sensor and image processing, sensor fusion, world modeling, planning, kinematics, control, software agents, machine learning and simulation. Instruction utilized example problems presented by real-world competitions such as the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC), AHS First Responder, and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) competitions. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2009.