Blog – esieabot

End-of-year project 2023

Post author By Gauthier Heiss
Post date 3 August 2023

For the 3^rd year running, the “end-of-year project”, which concludes our students’ first year, allowed them to put their newly-acquired computer science, electronics and physics skills into practice on their esieabot.

This year’s topic was simple: they had to design a team of autonomous firefighting robots to extinguish flames in a field. These flames, symbolized by a paper target with an ArUco marker, had to be “extinguished”, by throwing a ping pong ball at them.

Robots made during the “end-of-year project” week 2023

Thanks to the esieabot-ai-api library developed for the occasion, the students were able to create autonomous robots in C language, thanks to the computer science courses they had taken this year.

Our students and their robots during the “end-of-year project” week 2023

See you next year!

esieabot in the world

esieabot @ RIE 2023

Post author By Gauthier Heiss
Post date 19 April 2023

esieabot was present this year at the 14th Robotics in Eduction conference in Cyprus. Alexandre Brière, Pierre Courbin, Gauthier Heiss and Elodie Queney presented a research paper entitled “esieabot: a low-cost, open-source, modular robot platform used in an engineering curriculum”.

Gauthier HEISS presenting esieabot history @ RIE 2023

They presented esieabot and its integration into ESIEA’s pedagogy. In particular, the advantages of the esieabot in terms of low-cost production and openness.

The conference also provided an opportunity to introduce esieabot to researchers and teachers from all over the world, who were very interested. We hope to see it again very soon outside France, perhaps in Germany next year…

Pedagogy at ESIEA

End-of-year project 2022

Post author By Gauthier Heiss
Post date 1 July 2022

Like every year, our first-year students close their semester with a full week dedicated to carrying out a project around the esieabot. The subject this year is simple: build from common and recyclable materials (cardboard, paper, paperclips, string, etc.) a motorized catapult on their esieabot, remotely controlled in order to compete in a final challenge at the end of the week.