DroPong: Enthusing Learners About Control Engineering by Revisiting the Pong Game with Aerial and Ground Drones^*

Abstract

This paper proposes an adapted version of the classic Pong game, tailored for educational purposes and illustrated with two ground mobile robots and one drone, therefore called DroPong. The goal of this paper is twofold: (i) motivating students to pursue within a Control Engineering specialization, by involving engineering students in the development of game-inspired diverting Robotic platforms for teaching and research; (ii) educating future generations by increasing the visibility of Science, more particularly Control Engineering and Robotics, via popularizing science activities for children during open-day events and science festivals. The developed open-access resources are available on a dedicated repository.