Robotics Track

• background in sensing and control– How do analog and digital circuits work, how do sensors work

and how can we understand, analyze and compute with digital and analog signals.

• Helps you understand how robots and home automation systems work

• Application domains:– Smart home automation– Assistive robotics– Social Robotics

• other domains like ‘game experience’ use sensing and control as well

Assistive Robotics

• KSERA project with NAO Robot• See http://www.ksera-project.eu/ for some

interesting movie clips• Nao should react to non-verbal cues– track faces, divert its gaze towards a moving

object and track moving objects• Nao should be able to avoid obstacles• How to approach a human in the most natural

way?

Social robotics

• Persuasive avatars– Mimicry (tracking head movements): you will like

and trust an avatar more if it mimics your movements

Game Experience

• Measuring game experience using sensors• Linking behavior with

subjective measures

PT-Robotica 2013 Q 1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Year 1: 2013-2014

Course 1 Calculus (Formal) Physics (Formal) Modeling (0LBB0) Use

2WBB0 3NBB0 of modelling (0LAB0) 0SAB0

Course 2

Introduction Psychology & Technology

Social Psychology & Consumer Behavior Signals Brain, Body, Behavior

0HV10 0HV30 4CA00 0HV40

Course 3 Programming K Research Methods I K2IP90 0HV00

Year 2: 2014-2015

Course 1 Design Research Methods II Perception & motor action Thinking and Deciding

Course 2 Computation I Fundamentals of Electronics

OGO Qualitative Research

Sensing, computing and automation

Course 3 K-U K-U K-U K-U

Year 3: 2015-2016

Course 1 HTI in Social Context Human Factors BEP BEP

Course 2OGO Quantitative

ResearchAdvanced Research Meth. & Research

EthicsK K

Course 3 K-U K-U K K

Required electives

• 1.3: 4CA00 SignalsBasic understanding of the mathematical principles behind analog and digital signals.

• 2.1 5EIA0 Computation 1Basic understanding of digital electronics, how does a computer work,

• hardware versus software

Required Electives

• 2.2 5XCA0 Fundamental of electronicsBasic understanding of analog electronics

• 2.4 Sensing computing and automationBasic understanding of sensors / actuators and how these can be used in controlsystems

Examples of additional electives

• USE line Robotics• Several EE courses: Computation II, Control

systems• OGO Venus Exploration (EE) During this OGO you will be

working in a team to design and build a system that is used to explore the planet Venus. You will develop robots equipped with sensors and actuators which drive over the surface of the planet. These robots need to cooperate with each other to complete several challenging tasks. For this purpose you will design your own wireless communication system.

• OGO Robot Arm (Mech. En.)