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This paper presents our experience in integrating agents and robotics in our Computer Science Curriculum. We present a series of modules throughout our curriculum that progressively address these themes and other AI related topics, which ends with a specialised final year module central to teaching and learning multi-agent systems and principles of robotics. As part of this module a Robotics Challenge is organised, allowing students to integrate the knowledge they obtained in previously attended modules, and to practically apply knowledge and skills in order to solve a real problem.
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Stamatopoulou, I., Dimopoulos, K., Kefalas, P. (2018). Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Agents and Robotics in a Computer Science Curriculum. In: Ivanović, M., Bădică, C., Dix, J., Jovanović, Z., Malgeri, M., Savić, M. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing XI. IDC 2017. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 737. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66379-1_28
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