Robotics Engineering

The Impacts of Robotics on our World

Prerequisites: Basic programming skills and any prior robotics experience is useful but not required.

The robotics engineering course is tailored for high school students, aiming to equip them with fundamental knowledge about the perception, action, and behavior of robots. Throughout the course, participants will delve into cutting-edge robotics technologies and their far-reaching implications across various sectors, including manufacturing, service, and defense. By offering an engaging blend of theory and hands-on practice, our primary objective is to inspire students to explore robotics as a potential engineering discipline. Through interactive group sessions featuring video lectures and robot programming activities, students will embark on an exciting journey into the fascinating world of robotics.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate a beginners level understanding of the robotics as an engineering discipline, state of the art in robotics and the relevant skills and knowledge required to become a roboticist.
  2. Describe the nature and type of research work conducted in robotics in various robotics disciplines and the impact of those on our world.
  3. Develop problem solving, critical thinking, and programming skills.
  4. Automate a robot for performing simple tasks.

UConn PCS: Robotics Engineering

Sessions Offered

Session 1: June 22 - June 28

Format

Residential, Non-Credit

Students will get to experience:

  • Interactive introductory lectures on history and overview of robotics engineering as an interdisciplinary field.
  • An overview into the following disciplines in robotics:
  • Robot motion and control
  • Human-robot interaction
  • Automation
  • An invigorating hands-on experience with electronics and programming.

UConn PCS: Robotics Engineering

UConn PCS: Robotics Engineering

UConn PCS: Robotics Engineering

Meet the Professors

 

Shalabh Gupta received his M.S. degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering, and his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, in 2004, 2005, and 2006, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut. His current research interests include distributed autonomy, cyber–physical systems, robotics, network intelligence, data analytics, information fusion, and fault diagnosis in complex systems. Dr. Gupta has published more than 120 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers with his graduate and undergraduate students.

Mainak Mondal earned his Bachelor's degree in Computer Applications from Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India, in 2018, and his M.S. in Information Systems and Instrumentation Engineering from Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, in 2020. He has held various industrial design positions at multinational companies in India and engineering roles in research laboratories in Russia. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut. His research interests include aerial robotics, control systems, cyber–physical systems, sensor fusion, and applied AI in robotic systems.