Embedded Systems - Embodied Agents, Robot Programming in Java for the NXT Mindstorms - A Free Course

Here’s a description of Ole’s talk from GOTO Aarhus 2012

At the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University we have used the Lego Mindstorms NXT Robotics set to teach a master course in embedded Java programming like simple regulation systems and robotics programming like flocks of robots building a map of an unknown environment.

The Lego sensors and actuators connected to the NXT microcomputer unit are controlled by programs written in the leJOS Java system.

Through a number of lab sessions the students get comfortable with sensor input interpretation and actuator control. At the end of a half year course the students finish a project of their own choice. Examples of projects will be demonstrated.