The reformulation of the education system through the Bologna agreement, creates the opportunity to tune and exchange all different partner’s experiences and use this intensive program to implement new methodological processes based in active learning from the students instead of knowledge transmission by the teaching staff. By building a trusty and accountable program to be fulfilled by all institutions may create possibilities for joint study programs and course fine tuning within Bologna framework.

The teaching and learning methodology will be based in classroom sessions, where the topics will be presented using multimedia facilities, such as power-point slides, videos and demonstrations. Particularly, demonstrations, simulations and videos will be used to show, in a realistic way, the topics addressed in the intensive programme. In parallel, an elearning platform will be used to support the pedagogical activities during the course. This learning tool assumes a crucial role in the intensive course and will assist future editions of learning processes in the area of robotics.

The intensive programme comprises the following 7 modules:

Module 1: Introduction to robotics
Duration: 3 hours
Lecture: Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Topics: presentation of the IP course. Robotics: contextualization, history, advantages and typical domain
applications.

Module 2: Industrial robotics
Duration: 3 hours
Lecture: Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Topics: Introduction to manipulator systems, classification, joints, sensors and tools, kinematics and dynamics,
security.

Duration: 6 hours
Lecture: Instituto Politécnico de Bragança + Loughborough University
Topics: Programming & operation of manipulator systems (using ABB IRB 1400 industrial manipulators and academic
Bioloid-based manipulators), and industrial applications.

Module 3: Autonomous mobile robotics
Duration: 6 hours
Lecture: University of Salamanca
Topics: Basic concepts of mobile autonomous robotics, sensing, localization and navigation. Practical exercises.

Duration: 6 hours
Lecture: University of Salamanca
Topics: Control architectures, path planning, collision avoidance, cooperation and simulation. Laboratorial mini-project
for an autonomous mobile robotic using Lego NXT.

Module 4: Image processing and artificial intelligence in robotics
Duration: 6 hours
Lecture: Mevlana University
Topics: Image processing techniques used in robotics, including the recognition and classification. Implementation of
an object detection and classification on an embedded system based on the shape and color of the object.

Module 5: Medical robotics
Duration: 6 hours
Lecture: University of Valladolid
Topics: Robots system for SILS and NOTES surgery. Presentation and discussion of some practical videos.

Duration: 6 hours
Lecture: University of Valladolid
Topics: Rehabilitation: Haptic interface, force feedback and “assistance as needed” control in robots for neurorehabilitation
for people with physical disabilities in the upper limbs. Practical work.

Module 6: Robot as Service Provider in an Industrial System-of-Systems Infrastructure
Duration: 6 hours
Lecture: University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer
Topics: Robot as a System providing Services, Robot as a System composed of collaborative mechatronics-,
communication-, information- and automation- systems.

Module 7: Entrepreneurship
Duration: 6 hours
Lecture: Instituto Politécnico de Bragança + University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer
Topics: From original ideas to Patent Boots, Patent-Filling, -Registering and Defending. Knowledge Protection and
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Management.

Evaluation (written test about the topics of all previous modules)
Duration: 3 hours

Field work: visit to a plant exhibiting robotic systems
Duration: 3 hours