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International Conference on Robotics and Education RiE 2017

RiE 2017: Robotics in Education pp 141–153Cite as

MuseumsBot - An Interdisciplinary Scenario in Robotics Education

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This paper introduces a project based interdisciplinary course in computer science. The students of the course Robotics should create an autonomous robot for a museum. Therefore various soft and technical skills were measured, the goals were determined and the results of the course are compared to earlier courses. The aim of the project based approach in combination with a real life scenario was to deepen a holistic view of different topics in robotics and to strengthen the motivation of the students.

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    Tanja Heuer, Ina Schiering & Reinhard Gerndt

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  3. Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Vienna, Austria

    Gottfried Koppensteiner

  4. Slovak University of Technology (STU), Bratislava, Slovakia

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Heuer, T., Schiering, I., Gerndt, R. (2018). MuseumsBot - An Interdisciplinary Scenario in Robotics Education. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 630. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62875-2_13

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