RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Experiences on a motivational learning approach for robotics in undergraduate courses
A1 Ruiz-Sarmiento, José Raúl
A1 Galindo-Andrades, Cipriano
A1 González-Jiménez, Antonio Javier
K1 Aprendizaje
AB This paper presents an educational experience carried out in robotics undergraduate courses from twodifferent degrees: Computer Science and Industrial Engineering, having students with diversecapabilities and motivations. The experience compares two learning strategies for the practicallessons of such courses: one relies on code snippets in Matlab to cope with typical robotic problemslike robot motion, localization, and mapping, while the second strategy opts for using the ROSframework for the development of algorithms facing a competitive challenge, e.g. explorationalgorithms. The obtained students’ opinions were instructive, reporting, for example, that although theyconsider harder to master ROS when compared to Matlab, it might be more useful in their (roboticrelated) professional careers, which enhanced their disposition to study it. They also considered thatthe challenge-exercises, in addition to motivate them, helped to develop their skills as engineers to agreater extent than the skeleton-code based ones. These and other conclusions will be useful inposterior courses to boost the interest and motivation of the students.
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/13467
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/13467
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026