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Robotics Trackbackground in sensing and controlHow 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 workApplication domains:Smart home automationAssistive roboticsSocial Roboticsother domains like game experience use sensing and control as wellAssistive RoboticsKSERA project with NAO RobotSee http://www.ksera-project.eu/ for some interesting movie clipsNao should react to non-verbal cuestrack faces, divert its gaze towards a moving object and track moving objectsNao should be able to avoid obstaclesHow to approach a human in the most natural way?

Social roboticsPersuasive avatarsMimicry (tracking head movements): you will like and trust an avatar more if it mimics your movements

Game ExperienceMeasuring game experience using sensorsLinking behavior withsubjective measures

PT-Robotica 2013Q 1Q2Q3Q4Year 1: 2013-2014Course 1Calculus (Formal) Physics (Formal)Modeling (0LBB0)Use2WBB03NBB0of modelling (0LAB0)0SAB0Course 2Introduction Psychology & TechnologySocial Psychology & Consumer BehaviorSignalsBrain, Body, Behavior0HV100HV304CA000HV40Course 3ProgrammingKResearch Methods IK2IP900HV00Year 2: 2014-2015Course 1DesignResearch Methods IIPerception & motor actionThinking and DecidingCourse 2Computation IFundamentals of ElectronicsOGO Qualitative ResearchSensing, computing and automationCourse 3K-UK-UK-UK-UYear 3: 2015-2016Course 1HTI in Social ContextHuman FactorsBEPBEPCourse 2OGO Quantitative ResearchAdvanced Research Meth. & Research EthicsKKCourse 3K-UK-UKK

Required electives1.3: 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 Electives2.2 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 electivesUSE line RoboticsSeveral EE courses: Computation II, Control systemsOGO 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.)