USE OF THE BIOLOID ROBOTIC KIT IN THE TEACHING OF AUTOMATION AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Teaching Programming, Automation and Mathematics is often done on the theoretical level. Students often find this difficult to understand and they sometimes have no idea at all how the theory they have been taught can be applied in practice. Robots created from the robotic modular construction kit (we use Bioloid manufactured by Robotis) are a great tool for teaching basic programming structures, basic concepts of automatic control as well as how to integrate hardware and software. Students can see real results of their work - moving robots - which makes teaching attractive for those of them who have not yet done programming before. In the education process, robots can be successfully used for clarification of terms of higher mathematics such as integrals or derivatives, and to show how the explained theory can be applied in practice. Furthermore, examples of the possibilities how to work with modular robots at secondary schools significantly increases students' interest in studying technical subjects at universities.