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Robotics plays a major role in educating engineering students and can be integrated into a curriculum in many ways. Problem-based lecture courses allow only a limited technical complexity due to the number of their corresponding credit points. From all project categories described, long-term student-driven research projects are the most challenging regarding management. Several of such projects have been initiated at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB). One example is the rover SEAR which participated in space robotics competitions. During many years of experience in hands-on education, the major characteristics and challenges of student-driven projects were identified. Proven methods and good practices for addressing these challenges are discussed. If project leaders carefully respect all conditions of a student project, they can reduce the risks by implementing measures to keep a steady work-flow. Thus, the success rate of complex robotics research conducted by a student workforce can be increased significantly.
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Homepage of project management tool Redmine. http://www.redmine.org/, last access: 01/17/17.
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Homepage of version control system git. https://git-scm.com/, last access: 01/17/17.
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Special thanks go to the German Aerospace Center for initiating and promoting space projects that are paying a major contribution to high quality hands-on education at the Chair of Space Technology for several years now. Thanks go to the project leaders and lecturers who are passionate about uniting research and educational activities. Thanks go also to all the dedicated students who have spent countless nights working on their projects.
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Avsar, C., Kryza, L., Brieß, K. (2018). Methods for Managing Student-Driven Robotics Research. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 630. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62875-2_3
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