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This research was partially funded by the Community of Madrid in the framework of two research projects: (1) Multiannual agreement with Rey Juan Carlos University in line of action 1, "Encouragement of Young Ph.D. Students Investigation" project ref. F664, acronym UNIBOTICS2.0. (2) RoboCity2030-DIH-CM (2019-2022): RoboCity2030-Madrid Robotics Digital Innovation Hub, Programa de Actividades de I+D entre Grupos de investigacion de la Comunidad de Madrid en Tecnologias 2018. Project ref. S2018/NMT-4331.

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Open-Source Drone Programming Course for Distance Engineering Education

Publicat a:Electronics. 9 (12): - 2020-12-01 9(12), DOI: 10.3390/electronics9122163

Autors: Canas, Jose M.; Martin-Martin, Diego; Arias, Pedro; Vega, Julio; Roldan-Alvarez, David; Garcia-Perez, Lia; Fernandez-Conde, Jesus;

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This article presents a full course for autonomous aerial robotics inside the RoboticsAcademy framework. This "drone programming" course is open-access and ready-to-use for any teacher/student to teach/learn drone programming with it for free. The students may program diverse drones on their computers without a physical presence in this course. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) applications are essentially practical, as their intelligence resides in the software part. Therefore, the proposed course emphasizes drone programming through practical learning. It comprises a collection of exercises resembling drone applications in real life, such as following a road, visual landing, and people search and rescue, including their corresponding background theory. The course has been successfully taught for five years to students from several university engineering degrees. Some exercises from the course have also been validated in three aerial robotics competitions, including an international one. RoboticsAcademy is also briefly presented in the paper. It is an open framework for distance robotics learning in engineering degrees. It has been designed as a practical complement to the typical online videos of massive open online courses (MOOCs). Its educational contents are built upon robot operating system (ROS) middleware (de facto standard in robot programming), the powerful 3D Gazebo simulator, and the widely used Python programming language. Additionally, RoboticsAcademy is a suitable tool for gamified learning and online robotics competitions, as it includes several competitive exercises and automatic assessment tools.

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