Application of mobile autonomous robots to artificial intelligence and information systems curricula

This paper applies pedagogical ideas of teaching curriculum by strategies of themes and breadth-first coverage, together with the technology of intelligent agents (e.g. mobile, autonomous robots), to a system of courses in computer science (artificial intelligence) and information systems (systems engineering). The project brings the issues and constraints of real-time systems, especially the component of programming, to persons in computer science and information system curricula. This project's background started in June, 1997, and continued during the first part of the 1997-1998 academic year. The actual project's work started in January, 1998, and is still continuing.