DISBOTICS will be represented at the Robotics in Eduction Conference in Vienna
The research cooperation between the Isntitute of Automation and Control, the KISS institute of Practical Robotics and the TGM – Institute of Technology will be represented at the RiE2011 in Vienna (15/16. September 2011). The paper written by Gottfried Koppensteiner, Munir Merdan and David P. Miller has been accepted for a oral presentation at the Session about Teaching Robotics in Schools.
ID 41: Teaching BOTBALL and researching DISBOTICS
Koppensteiner Gottfried, Munir Merdan, David P. Miller
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
The enrollment in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) is not keeping pace with the need, especially in the robotics sector. The university level is often too late for someone to start their engineering education and therefore universities must recruit students well before they are about to start university study. This paper shows how to bridge the gap between research and high school education using BOTBALL combined with an actual research topic: The disassembly of goods with autonomous mobile robots. This paper is based on an extensive cooperative experience between the Vienna University of Technology and the Vienna Institute of Technology (TGM) and a successful first BOTBALL Season with the students of the TGM. It shows the possibilities of BOTBALL, the influence of other courses and a way to start with robotic beginners and end with research experts by the example of the DISBOTICS Project.
see more information at: http://www.rie2011.org/home/programme/
