Using robotics as a motivational tool: an Ada interface to a Pioneer robot

Authors:
Rigoberto Chil;Diego Alonso;Francisco Ortiz;Juan Pastor
Affiliations:
Division of Systems and Electronic Engineering, DSIE, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain;Division of Systems and Electronic Engineering, DSIE, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain;Division of Systems and Electronic Engineering, DSIE, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain;Division of Systems and Electronic Engineering, DSIE, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain
Venue:
Ada-Europe'11 Proceedings of the 16th Ada-Europe international conference on Reliable software technologies
Year:
2011

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Abstract

The new European Higher Education Area encourages student centred learning, which puts the focus on the learner and his needs, rather than being centred around the teacher's input. This paper presents an initiative that revolves around the use of a real robot and a robot simulatorwith twomain objectives:make learning programming languages more appealing to undergraduate students, and to have a platform that can be still used in postgraduate and master courses. The interface with the simulator and the real robot has been programmed in Ada, and it is also being used in our current Research and Development projects.