Advanced control course teaching using soccer-playing robots

This paper presents our experience in integrated advanced control teaching with a final year undergraduate course taught by the authors in recent years at the University of Girona in Spain. The experimental framework consists of two main components: the soccer-playing robots and computer vision and control systems. By practicing in the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, the students will achieve to consolidate, integrate and compare various learned advanced control techniques and thus will be able to select an appropriate technique for a real problem.