CICLOPE ROBOT: A Remote Laboratory for Teaching Embedded Real Time Systems

Author

López, D. ; Cedazo, R. ; Sánchez, F. ; Sebastián, J.M.

Author_Institution

Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid

fYear

2007

fDate

4-7 June 2007

Firstpage

2958

Lastpage

2962

Abstract

Ciclope robot is part of Ciclope project and its goal is to provide a real remote laboratory for teaching embedded real time systems. The students have to develop a control program that is going to run in an embedded computer with the free real time operating system RTEMS. Any student can accesses to this lab via Web by using a normal Internet browser. The students count with two different live views of the robots, in order to realize where it is placed at each moment. With these tool students can work at home via the Internet as if they were in the lab. Furthermore the teacher have full control of what the students are doing, because all the events are storaged into a data base. This permits distance evaluation. All the software used and made in this project is free and it is distributed under the GPL license.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; computer science education; control engineering education; control system CAD; discrete systems; embedded systems; robots; student experiments; teaching; Internet; ciclope project; ciclope robot; control program development; discrete control system design; embedded real time operating system; remote laboratory; teaching; Control systems; Education; Educational robots; Hardware; Internet; Licenses; Operating systems; Real time systems; Remote laboratories; Service robots; Distance learning; real-time; remote laboratory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2007. ISIE 2007. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Vigo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0754-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0755-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2007.4375085

Filename

4375085