Developing Curricula for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics


Activities

On Sunday 19/2/2023, for a period of five days, a course on Fundamentals of Robotics began in the laboratories of the Computer Engineering Department at the University of Jordan. This course is organized by the School of Engineering and the International Affairs Unit at the University of Jordan within the activities of the project Developing Curricula for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (DeCAIR) that is supported by the European Union.
The training team for this course is led by Prof. Lucia Pallotino from University of Pisa. This course covers theoretical and practical aspects of multiple topics including Introduction, Robot Components, Position and Orientation of a Rigid Body, Minimal Representations of Orientations , Kinematics of Manipulators, and Robot Design.
Thirty faculty members from the partner universities of Jordan and Lebanon are participating in this course from the University of Jordan represented by the School of Engineering and School of Information Technology, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Tafila Technical University, Lebanese University, and Beirut Arab University.
This course will be followed by a second advanced course in the University of Pisa at the end of June 2023.​