Submitted to the Journal on Computers and Education 1 Introducing Robotics at the Undergraduate Level †

At the undergraduate level there is a need to expose students to the complexities of programming robots to accomplish real life tasks. This paper outlines how a course in robotics can be taught at the undergraduate level with specific experiments that allow for incremental learning in programming a mobile robot. The experiments can be conducted using either a commercially available robot or by simulating the actions of a robot. In addition, the minimum functional capabilities required of the robot to conduct the experiments and implementation of two experiments are described.