Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Purpose:
Students who complete the module should be able to apply development robotic tools, programming languages and SW-environments for solving previously specified tasks in robotics.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Must have understanding of integrated development environments
• Must have understanding of differences between run-time and compile-time computer programming languages
• Must be able to explain the concepts of types, declarations, expressions and statements
• Must have insight into data structures, such as arrays
• Must have insight into input/output in various forms
• Must have understanding of procedures and functions, including function arguments
• Must have understanding of the complexity of a program
• General imperative programming language (such as C and Java)
• Software environments for robotic programming Robot Operating System (ROS)
• The use of ROS services and package abstractions of sensors, actuators and signals
• Must have understanding of the sharing and collaboration inherent to software frameworks such as ROS

Skills

• Must be able to interpret and analyse a basic procedural program and elaborate its functionality
• Must be able to design and implement algorithms for data structure manipulation
• Must be able to explain how to use algorithms, functions and data for solving problems (understanding)
• Must be able to apply at least one specific imperative programming to solve general information processing tasks
• Must be able to apply ROS for solving a specific robot programming task, given sensors and actuators supported by ROS packages

Competences

• Must be able, individually and in collaboration with others, to design and implement one or more programs to solve a previously specified problems

Type of instruction

See the general description of the types of instruction described in the introduction to Chapter 3.

Exam

Exams