1 Abstract— This research aims to present the LOGBOT project, an educational wheeled mobile robot based on systemic view concept to help teacher’s present concepts to students in Engineering education. The LOGBOT robot has the ability for autonomous navigation in indoor environments, and remotely operated either from a computer station, which sends commands wirelessly to the robot. With this proposal, teachers will be able to achieve more autonomy in the use of these resources. The main result of this research is that the engineering student gains the ability to develop advanced strategies in design and construction of robotics, all involving the environmental and social issues. Index Terms—Engineering Education, Systemic View, Mobile Robotics I. INTRODUCTION HE LOGBOT (acronym to Logistic Robot for Educational Purposes) is proposed in this paper as a methodology in systemic view for engineering education. The wheeled mobile robot (WMR) is a system example that illustrates the use of systemic view in project design. The Systemic View allows people make their understanding of social systems explicit and improve them in the same way that people can use engineering principles to make explicit their understanding of electronic, computing and mechanical systems [1]. The objective of LOGBOT project is to motivate the creativity in engineering student and helps him to understand the properties of each element forming part of a system, and mainly comprise the integration of these elements of a system as a whole, as well to identify possible interactions between this system with other systems [2]. A system is a dynamic and complex whole, interacting as a structured functional unit; energy, material and information flow among the different elements that compose the system [3], [4]. In engineering education, the main approach in the design of projects is the analytical view, which is concerned with the relationship between the component parts of the system, while the systemic view is concerned with the relationship of the Manuscript submitted August 05, 2012. Otavio Andre Chase is a Professor of Embedded Systems and Robotics at Amazonian Federal Rural University, Brazil, (e-mail: chase@ieee.org). José Felipe Souza de Almeida is a Professor of Physics at Amazonian Federal Rural University, Brazil, (e-mail: wirelinux@ciberfisica.org). Jorge Roberto Brito-de-Souza is a Professor of Control Systems at Federal University of Pará, Brazil, (e-mail: jrgbrito@ufpa.br). Carlos Tavares da Costa Júnior is a Professor of Control Systems at Federal University of Pará, Brazil, (e-mail: cartav@ufpa.br). system with the other systems, such as objects, people and the environment that encompasses all [4], [5]. The design and construction a system like a mobile robot is a multidisciplinary activity that encompasses several areas of knowledge, whose result is the integration of functions of each element that is part of a system. Robotics has a main function to replace humans in dangerous or repetitive tasks [15], [16], [25], so their inclusion as social and environmental technology is a current frontier of robotics development, because the trend is that the robots are also social beings [4], [5], [6], [13]. The wheeled mobile robot called LOGBOT has a traction type differential movement – with two wheels and an impeller to maintain the stability of its structure with the surface. This robot has two models of navigation: autonomous and telemetry. In autonomous control mode – Autonomous Guided Vehicle, the LOGBOT has the ability to navigate in indoor environments with the use of the corridor wall as your reference trajectory to be traveled [33]. In the control by telemetry mode – Remotely Operated Vehicle, communication with the LOGBOT control station operator is made by radio frequency at a distance of one kilometer to outdoors, and one hundred meters indoors [34]. This paper is organized as follows. Section 1 introduces the reader to the limits of current robots and the motivation behind creating LOGBOT. Section 2 further explains the significance and objective of this work. Section 3 is dedicated to the systemic view concept as a methodology in engineering education. Section 4 discusses the design of the LOGBOT as a whole, the mechanics, physical, hardware, software, navigation and networking are presented. Section 5 and 6 are dedicated to the results & discussions and conclusion respectively. II. PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE AND OBJECTIVE The knowledge becomes more complex and available every day and many engineering students have the following questions: “How to build something?”, “What should I learn?”, “How can I build a robot?” It generates demand for new educational methodologies for the engineering student to assimilate, integrate and apply the amount of information in their formation [6]–[9], [12]. This paper proposes the use of LOGBOT project as a method of transmission of knowledge in engineering education, with use of systemic view as supplement to analytical view in the design of a mobile robot, which can be built by any undergraduate student of engineering. Applying the use of Systemic View and Mobile Robotics in Engineering Education Otavio A. Chase, J. Felipe de Almeida, Jorge R. Brito-de-Souza, Carlos Tavares da Costa Júnior T Cyber Journals: Multidisciplinary Journals in Science and Technology, Journal of Selected Areas in Robotics and Control (JSRC), April Edition, 2013 Volume 3, Issue 4