The UC3M organises RoboticAULA during Education Week 2020
2/27/20
The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid organises the RoboticAULA workshop to bring science and technology closer to young people in an enjoyable way within the framework of AULA 2020, the Salón Internacional del Estudiante y de la Oferta Educativa (Student and Education Opportunities International Hall) in the exhibition centre in Madrid (IFEMA) during Education Week in the first week in March.
RoboticAULA provides the attendees with the opportunity to have their first contact with the world of robotics. To do so, 16 microrobotics workshops will be offered which will be carried out from Wednesday the 4th to Saturday the 7th of March during the mornings, lasting for 30 minutes and for groups of 20 students in each sitting.
This workshop, organised by lecturers from the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation at the UC3M, is aimed at students in their fourth year of Compulsory Secondary Education and first and second year of A-Levels. It is not necessary for those registered to have prior knowledge of robotics and programming in order to take part in the workshop. The attendees will learn to control the motors of a small mobile robot through an Arduino control panel with basic movement commands.
This low-cost robot model is equipped with a servomechanism movement system which provides it with navigation abilities for simple environments. All the students attending RoboticAULA will be able to learn how to control it while assimilating programming concepts. “We give them some simple steps with a programming template that they will complete in order to generate movement in the robots”, explain the lecturers who will provide the workshop, from the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation at the UC3M.
During the activity, each participating group will have to carry out the task of navigating an obstacle course without crashing and park in the indicated area. They will be introduced to programming with Arduino and they will learn the basic control of a mobile robot and how to solve problems in a simple and dynamic way, focusing their efforts on the selection of better strategies and encouraging teamwork.
