Fitting into their shoes: how robots help multidisciplinary approaches under cooperative learning

Abstract

Agricultural engineering is full of subjects with highly specific contents from a wide variety of domains which are barely linked together. In the last years of study, it is interesting to test how deeply the knowledge has been acquired and is required regarding agronomy, math, physics, engineering and computing, by means of trying to build and to program an agricultural robot. Within this framework, Applied Robotics in Agriculture is a course designed to combine the required competences. In this paper, a discussion on the results of learning along this first course implementation is also provided emphasizing highlights and drawbacks.