Teaching Robotics with the Usage of Robot Operating System ROS

This article presents an exercise framework for teaching robotics with Robot Operating System ROS. It is designed to teach the fundamental robotics principles in an interactive way, while using modern software tools that are commonly used in real-world practice. The exercises and assignments encourage students to implement the robotics theory into their own algorithms and test and compare them to ROS provided functionality, to better understand the development of robotic systems. This paper describes the framework in detail and explains the choice of ROS as the software tool for the framework. In the end, the results of an evaluation questionnaire are presented to assess the overall satisfaction and usefulness of the course.