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- Berglund, Aseel, et al.
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Integrating Soft Skills into Engineering Education for Increased Student Throughput and more Professional Engineers
- 2014
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In: Proceedings of LTHs 8:e Pedagogiska Inspirationskonferens (PIK). - Lund, Sweden : Lunds university.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Soft skills are recognized as crucial for engineers as technical work is becoming more and more collaborative and interdisciplinary. Today many engineering educations fail to give appropriate training in soft skills. Linköping University has therefore developed a completely new course “Professionalism for Engineers” for two of its 5-year engineering programs in the area of computer science. The course stretches over the first 3 years with students from the three years taking it together. The purpose of the course is to give engineering students training in soft skills that are of importance during the engineering education as well as during their professional career. The examination is based on the Dialogue Seminar Method developed for learning from experience and through reflection. The organization of the course is innovative in many ways.
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- Doherty, Patrick, 1957-, et al.
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A Delegation-Based Architecture for Collaborative Robotics
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In: Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XI. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 9783642226359 ; , s. 205-247
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Collaborative robotic systems have much to gain by leveraging results from the area of multi-agent systems and in particular agent-oriented software engineering. Agent-oriented software engineering has much to gain by using collaborative robotic systems as a testbed. In this article, we propose and specify a formally grounded generic collaborative system shell for robotic systems and human operated ground control systems. Collaboration is formalized in terms of the concept of delegation and delegation is instantiated as a speech act. Task Specification Trees are introduced as both a formal and pragmatic characterization of tasks and tasks are recursively delegated through a delegation process implemented in the collaborative system shell. The delegation speech act is formally grounded in the implementation using Task Specification Trees, task allocation via auctions and distributed constraint problem solving. The system is implemented as a prototype on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle systems and a case study targeting emergency service applications is presented.
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- Doherty, Patrick, 1957-, et al.
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A Delegation-Based Cooperative Robotic Framework
- 2011
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In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetic. - : IEEE conference proceedings. - 9781457721366 ; , s. 2955-2962
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Cooperative robotic systems, such as unmanned aircraft systems, are becoming technologically mature enough to be integrated into civil society. To gain practical use and acceptance, a verifiable, principled and well-defined foundation for interactions between human operators and autonomous systems is needed. In this paper, we propose and specify such a formally grounded collaboration framework. Collaboration is formalized in terms of the concept of delegation and delegation is instantiated as a speech act. Task Specification Trees are introduced as both a formal and pragmatic characterization of tasks and tasks are recursively delegated through a delegation process. The delegation speech act is formally grounded in the implementation using Task Specification Trees, task allocation via auctions and distributed constraint solving. The system is implemented as a prototype on unmanned aerial vehicle systems and a case study targeting emergency service applications is presented.
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- Doherty, Patrick, 1957-, et al.
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Delegation-Based Collaboration
- 2012
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In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys).
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- Heintz, Fredrik, 1975-, et al.
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Civilingenjör i Mjukvaruteknik vid Linköpings universitet : mål, design och erfarenheter
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In: Proceedings of 4:de Utvecklingskonferensen för Sveriges ingenjörsutbildningar (UtvSvIng).
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Hösten 2013 startade Linköpings universitet den första civilingenjörsutbildningen i Mjukvaruteknik. Utbildningens mål är att bland annat att ge ett helhetsperspektiv på modern storskalig mjukvaruutveckling, ge en gedigen grund i datavetenskap och computational thinking samt främja entreprenörskap och innovation. Studenternas gensvar har varit över förväntan med över 600 sökande till de 30 platserna varav 134 förstahandssökande. Här presenterar vi programmets vision, mål, designprinciper samt det färdiga programmet. En viktig förebild är ACM/IEEE Computer Science Curricula som precis kommit i en ny uppdaterad version. Tre pedagogiska idéer vi har följt är (1) att använda projektkurser för att integrera teori och praktik samt ge erfarenhet i den vanligaste arbetsformen i näringslivet; (2) att undervisa i flera olika programspråk och flera olika programutvecklingsmetodiker för att ge en plattform att ta till sig det senaste på området; och (3) att införa en programsammanhållande kurs i ingenjörsprofessionalism i årskurs 1–3 som ger studenterna verktyg att reflektera över sitt eget lärande, att jobba i näringslivet samt sin professionella yrkesroll. Artikeln avslutas med en diskussion om viktiga aspekter som computational thinking och ACM/IEEE CS Curricula.
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- Heintz, Fredrik, 1975-, et al.
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Federated DyKnow, a Distributed Information Fusion System for Collaborative UAVs
- 2010
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In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV). - : IEEE conference proceedings. - 9781424478149 ; , s. 1063-1069
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications are becoming more complex and covering larger physical areas there is an increasing need for multiple UAVs to cooperatively solve problems. To produce more complete and accurate information about the environment we present the DyKnow Federation framework for distributed fusion among collaborative UAVs. A federation is created and maintained using a multi-agent delegation framework which allows high-level specification and reasoning about resource bounded cooperative problem solving. When the federation is set up, local information is transparently shared between the agents according to specification. The work is presented in the context of a multi-UAV traffic monitoring scenario.
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- Heintz, Fredrik, 1975-, et al.
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Pedagogical Experiences of Competitive Elements in an Algorithms Course
- 2012
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In: Proceedings of LTHs 7:e Pedagogiska Inspirationskonferens (PIK).
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We claim that competitive elements can improve thequality of programming and algorithms courses. To test this, weused our experience from organising national and internationalprogramming competitions to design and evaluate two differentcontests in an introductory algorithms course. The first contestturned lab assignments into a competition, where two groups rancompetitions and two were control groups and did not compete.The second, voluntary, contest, consisting of 15 internationalprogramming competition style problems, was designed tosupport student skill acquisition by providing them withopportunities for deliberate practise. We found that competitiveelements do influence student behaviour and our mainconclusions from the experiment are that students really likecompetitions, that the competition design is very important forthe resulting behaviour of the students, and that active studentsperform better on exams.We also report on an extra-curricular activity in the form of asemester long programming competition as a way of supportingstudent's deliberate practise in computer programming.
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