Interdisciplinary construction and implementation of a human sized humanoid robot by Master Students

Abstract

With limited funding it seemed a very good idea to encourage Master Students to design and construct their own human sized biped robot. Because this task is huge and very interdisciplinary different areas of expertise were covered by students from different departments who in turn took over results from former students. In the last three years three student groups from Department of Mechanical Engineering and Electronic Systems have been working on the project. The robot AAU-BOT1 has been designed, manufactured, assembled, instrumented and walking should be possible in the near future. The Project Organized Problem Based Learning method implemented at Aalborg University is one of the reasons why supervisors give Master Students such a challenge. © 2009 Springer-Verlag.