Robotics course — A challenge for computer science students

Abstract

The course Robotics could be taught using different approaches, depending on the audience that takes the course. For example, the course could be taught to mechanical engineers, which are usually acquainted with hardware, or to software students, that usually lack the hardware knowledge. This paper elaborates on the evolution of creating the syllabus for the course Robotics taught in a computer science curriculum. The challenges that were successfully overcome, the increased student satisfaction and the completion of more difficult student projects in this course are given as a result of such an evolution of this particular Robotics course.