Mobile robots in the engineering education setting

摘要

Demand for engineering graduates is steadily growing around the world. Attracting more students into engineering has become a task of an emerging importance. Mobile robotics is an excellent tool to fascinate young boys and girls while drawing their interests to such fields as mechanical, electrical, electronic, control and computer engineering. It also allows keeping and further developing this interest during the years of study. This paper presents low- to medium-complexity autonomous mobile robots that could be directly employed at school and university levels to introduce to engineering or be used as platforms for further development by the students.