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INFIRO Proceedings of the International Conference of Robotics, Electronics and Computerized laboratory

INFIRO project (Integrated physics approach to robotics designed laboratory) was conceived as a lifelong learning programme primarily dedicated to students in vocational schools aiming at developing their expertise beyond the scope of regular education curricula. Applying interdisciplinary approach and combining different electronics, mechatronics and robotics problems with more fundamental physics, mathematics and informatics knowledge we promote scientific and technical education, both, to primary school pupils and high school students population not only those from vocational schools domain. All our activities truly happened in the strict laboratory environment equipped with computers and suitable electronic elements/tools and controllers. We minimized the foreknowledge requirements in favor of the student’s self-investigation approach. Our activities did not pull out teacher component away from the education process, on contrary, our laboratories strongly depend on teachers always being present to help and give constructive recommendations and clues instead of the unnecessary lessoning. During active period of INFIRO project two Summer Schools were held in Rabac/Labin with more than 60 students and 30 teachers/trainers being present at each school. But in the event preparation hundreds of students and dozen teachers and trainers from different countries were involved in diverse types of activities: from problem construction, machining and testing equipment to designing and shaping educational materials, developing and performing the laboratory learning. We experimented with numerous apparatuses to make our laboratories as attractive as is reasonably achievable. Sometimes very novel tools were used and occasionally we grabbed the software well known for decade. Crucial decision point in our exercises was always the motivating idea of the experiment. For basic robotics and electronic lab we tried to use the most reliable tools, minimizing financial requirements and making things easily available to wider population interested in a subject. However, inside advanced lab in electronics and robotics we were not afraid to practice with a more complicated, sometimes even commercial, hardware and software. This book is collection of ideas partially or completely covered on INFIRO Summer Schools or around it. It contains our experience on exercising with electronic circuitry and trying to pull out some intelligent action from simple controller board. If you, because of this booklet, desire to acquire some of the available controllers on the Internet and start to practice yourself trying to beat novelty of our skills and ideas, our mission is completed. But a lot of INFIRO ideas are yet neither realized, nor published. Many things are not realized yet so we hope that we will be back.

INFIRO; Proceedings; International Conference; Robotics; Electronics; Computerized laboratory

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