Special Topics in Software Engineering:

Introduction to Robotics

This course is a KV (combined course consisting of lectures and project work) in which students learn the basic of building and programming simple robots, using the LEGO Mindstorm Invention System.
The lectures present how to start to build and program mobile robots confronting real world robotics problems. The students work in groups of three and they have to build, program, document and present two robot projects. The first project is the creation of a simple line following robot, the second project will be determined during the lectures.

Lecturer

Prof. Dr. Zoltan Istenes, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest,
istenes@inf.elte.hu

Dates

Contents

• sensor calibration and accuracy
• motor driving
• computational power and memory constraints
• basic fault tolerant and error recovery techniques
• robot-robot and robot-computer communication
• artificial intelligence techniques
• agent technologies

Software

• Linux: BrickOS
• Linux: LeJOS
• Windows: BricxCC

Literature

It is suggested to read the following paper: http://quasar.inf.elte.hu/oktatas/intro_robotics

Links:

• The LEGO Mindstorm Invention System webpage
• The suggested robot programming language
• A very simple robot programming language
• A brief presentation of my similar courses
• Student projects, (in Hungarian)