Introduction of Robotics in the First Year of Engineering through the Design, Construction and Competition of Robots
Francisco A. Candelas-Herías, Fernando Torres Medina, Santiago Timoteo Puente Méndez, Iván del Pino, Miguel Ángel Muñoz-Bañón · 2019
Nowadays, robotics education programs are used to promote the skills of students in STEM content at different levels of education for a wide variety of studies, not just engineering. This paper describes an educational program of robotics, applied precisely to the laboratory sessions of a robotics initiation course taught in the first year of a degree in Robotic Engineering, as well as the results of the application of that program in different academic years. The educational program contemplates that the students, grouped in work teams, have to design, assemble, and program a small mobile robot, destined to a final competition in which all the teams participate.