15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
ADVANCED CONTROL COURSE TEACHING USING SOCCER-PLAYING ROBOTS
Ningsu Luo, Josep Lluís De la Rosa, Israel Muñoz
Department d’Electrònica, Informàtica i Automàtica
Escola Politècnica Superior, Universitat de Girona
Av. Lluís Santaló, s/n, 17071 Girona, SPAIN

This paper presents our experience in integrated advanced control teaching with a final year undergraduate course taught by the authors in recent years at the University of Girona in Spain. The experimental framework consists of two main components: the soccer-playing robots and computer vision and control systems. By practicing in the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, the students will achieve to consolidate, integrate and compare various learned advanced control techniques and thus will be able to select an appropriate technique for a real problem.
Keywords: Control education, mobile robots, identification, Kalman filter, predictive control, robust control.
Session slot T-Th-E05: Control Education II/Area code 6a : Control Education