Implementation of a Multi-disciplinary Robotics Curriculum for master’s Student: The Use Case of AMSCC¹ International Semester

Abstract

Designing a complete semester curriculum in robotics from scratch is a challenging task, especially in the context of multidisciplinary teaching using lecturers from the computer science, electronics, mathematics, and physics-mechanics departments. This task is even more complex for a semester offered to local and European students, adding a level of heterogeneous background, even at a bachelor’s degree in STEM. This article emphasizes on a robotics projects-oriented approach to overcome the numerous and various challenges at hand. It will also describe the requirements to fulfill introducing general guidelines considered during the design process. The hardware specifications of the robots and the computing platform are then explained. During the implementation step, a focus is given on the more efficient way to introduce Robot Operating System (ROS) to students. We propose a nice and efficient solution that has been experimented during the first iteration of the semester. It showed to give interesting results, both from the students and the teaching team point of view.