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RobotCraft: The First International Collective Internship for Advanced Robotics Training

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Robotics in Education (RiE 2018)

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This paper describes a two-month summer collective internship conceived to provide a unique hands-on experience in robotics. The objective of the Robotics Craftsmanship International Academy, or RobotCraft for short, is to introduce higher education students in the full design cycle of a mobile robotic platform, providing training in computer-aided design (CAD), mechatronics, low-level programming of embedded systems, high-level development using the Robot Operating System (ROS), and artificial intelligence. This non-academic teaching, which successfully completed its second edition, already encompassed around 150 students and 100 universities, being evaluated by participants as challenging, engaging, and beneficial not only to their overall understanding of robotics, but also guiding them through their future academic and professional endeavors.

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    http://www.thetechedvocate.org/robotics-the-next-big-thing-in-higher-education/.

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    http://robotcraft.ingeniarius.pt/.

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    https://www.tinkercad.com/.

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    http://www.ros.org/.

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    http://robots.ros.org/all/.

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Acknowledgement

We sincerely thank all the community for their contributions on the wide range of free and open-source frameworks adopted in this work, namely ros.org, arduino.cc, freecadweb.org, blender.org and ubuntu.com.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Ingeniarius, Lda., Rua Coronel Veiga Simo, Edifcio CTCV, 3025-307, Coimbra, Portugal

    Micael S. Couceiro & André G. Araújo

  2. Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra, Rua Silvio Lima, Polo II, 3030-290, Coimbra, Portugal

    Micael S. Couceiro

  3. American University of Beirut, Beirut, 1107 2020, Lebanon

    Karen Tatarian

  4. RoboCorp, Department of Electrical Engineering (DEE), Engineering Institute of Coimbra (ISEC), Polytechnic of Coimbra (IPC), 3030-199, Coimbra, Portugal

    Nuno M. F. Ferreira

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Correspondence to Micael S. Couceiro .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Vienna, Austria

    Wilfried Lepuschitz

  2. Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Vienna, Austria

    Munir Merdan

  3. Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Vienna, Austria

    Gottfried Koppensteiner

  4. Slovak University of Technology (STU), Bratislava, Slovakia

    Richard Balogh

  5. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    David Obdržálek

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Couceiro, M.S., Araújo, A.G., Tatarian, K., Ferreira, N.M.F. (2019). RobotCraft: The First International Collective Internship for Advanced Robotics Training. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 829. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97085-1_3

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