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RoboticAULA provides those attending the opportunity to have a first encounter with the world of robotics in an entertaining way. For this, 16 workshops on microrobotics are being offered, which will be carried out from Wednesday 27 th to Saturday 30 th March during the morning, 30 minutes long and for groups of 20 students per session.

This workshop, organised by lecturers from the UC3M’s department of Systems Engineering and Automation, is aimed at students in their last year of secondary school and their first and second year of sixth form. Those taking part do not need to have prior knowledge of robotics or programming. Those attending will learn to control the motors of a small mobile robot using the Arduino control panel with basic movement commands.

This low-cost robot model is equipped with a servomechanism movement system that gives it navigation abilities in simple settings. All students attending RoboticAULA, irrespective of their level and knowledge, will be able to learn to operate it whilst taking in some programming concepts. “We will give them some simple steps with a programming template that they will complete in order to generate the robots’ movements”, explain the lecturers who will teach the workshop, from the UC3M’s department of Systems Engineering and Automation.

During the activity, each group taking part will have to complete the task of going around an area of obstacles without crashing and parking in the right space. Some of the knowledge acquired with this activity includes an induction to programming with Arduino, the basic operation of a mobile robot and the solution to problems posed in a simple and dynamic way, focusing their efforts on choosing the best strategy and encouraging group cooperation.