Embedded and real time system design: A case study fire fighting robot

This paper presents the author's experiences using a low-cost microcontroller evaluation board and a commercially available real-time operating system in the laboratory component of an undergraduate embedded and real time system design course. This course covers both hardware and software topics in embedded and real time systems, and the course culminates in a final team-based design project to promote the students to study the building units of embedded and real time system, to achieve fundamental knowledge acquisition on embedded system, hardware and software design experiences, teamwork and problem-solving skills with the higher-order thinking.