Learning robots: teaching design students in integrating intelligence

  • Authors:
  • Emilia Barakova;Jun Hu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology;Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology

  • Venue:
  • Edutainment'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on E-learning and games, edutainment technologies
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The present day society requires specialists with multidisciplinary knowledge and skills. We discuss the possibilities to educate professionals that design intelligent products and systems as a result of a competency based education. In particular this paper features a teaching method that makes the students use intelligent algorithms that control robot behavior in a way that the robot can solve design problems with practical relevance, and reach human to machine interaction that includes machine intelligence. The outcomes of 14 cases done over 4 years showed that most students were able to integrate the required competencies in a synergistic way. Within 80 hours they could master the technical complexity of controlling a robot through a neural learning algorithm in well-grounded design cases.