The document outlines the robotics track for a degree program, including background courses in sensing and control, application domains like smart home automation and assistive robotics, and specific projects involving social robotics, persuasive avatars, and measuring game experience using sensors. Required electives are listed that provide understanding of analog and digital signals, digital electronics, and sensors/actuators for control systems. Examples of additional electives include robotics courses and outdoor group projects involving designing robotic systems for Venus exploration and building a cooperative robot arm.

1. Robotics Track
• background in sensing and control
– How 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 work
• Application domains:
– Smart home automation
– Assistive robotics
– Social Robotics
• other domains like ‘game experience’ use sensing
and control as well

2. Assistive Robotics
• KSERA project with NAO Robot
• See http://www.ksera-project.eu/ for some
interesting movie clips
• Nao should react to non-verbal cues
– track faces, divert its gaze towards a moving
object and track moving objects
• Nao should be able to avoid obstacles
• How to approach a human in the most natural
way?

3. Social robotics
• Persuasive avatars
– Mimicry (tracking head movements): you will like
and trust an avatar more if it mimics your
movements

4. Game Experience
• Measuring game experience using sensors
• Linking behavior with
subjective measures

5. PT-Robotica 2013 Q 1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Year 1: 2013-2014
Course 1
Calculus (Formal) Physics (Formal) Modeling (0LBB0) Use
2WBB0 3NBB0 of modelling (0LAB0) 0SAB0
Course 2
Introduction
Psychology &
Technology
Social Psychology &
Consumer Behavior
Signals Brain, Body, Behavior
0HV10 0HV30 4CA00 0HV40
Course 3
Programming K Research Methods I
K
2IP90 0HV00
Year 2: 2014-2015
Course 1
Design Research Methods II
Perception & motor
action
Thinking and Deciding
Course 2
Computation I
Fundamentals of
Electronics
OGO Qualitative
Research
Sensing, computing
and automation
Course 3
K-U K-U K-U K-U
Year 3: 2015-2016
Course 1
HTI in Social Context Human Factors BEP BEP
Course 2
OGO Quantitative
Research
Advanced Research
Meth. & Research
Ethics
K K
Course 3
K-U K-U K K

6. Required electives
• 1.3: 4CA00 Signals
Basic understanding of the
mathematical principles
behind analog and digital
signals.
• 2.1 5EIA0 Computation 1
Basic understanding of digital
electronics, how does a
computer work,
• hardware versus software

7. Required Electives
• 2.2 5XCA0 Fundamental of electronics
Basic understanding of
analog electronics
• 2.4 Sensing computing and automation
Basic understanding of sensors / actuators
and how these can be used in control
systems

8. Examples of additional electives
• USE line Robotics
• Several EE courses: Computation II, Control
systems
• OGO 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.)