Using LEGO robots with LabVIEW for a Summer School on Mechatronics

Author

García-Cerezo, Alfonso ; Gómez-De-Gabriel, JesÙs ; Fernández-Lozano, Jesús ; Mandow, Anthony ; Muñoz, Victor F. ; Vidal-Verdú, Fernando ; Janschek, Klaus

Author_Institution

Dipt. Ing. de Sist. y Autom., Univ. de Malaga, Malaga

fYear

2009

fDate

14-17 April 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper reports on the experience of the 2008 international summer school on mechatronics, jointly organized by the University of M´alaga (Spain) and the Technical University of Dresden (Germany). An important part of the hands-on practice and two student competitions have been based on the LEGO Mindstorms NXT Set. To stimulate lab work with representative general purpose software tools, LabVIEW and the NXT add-ons have been used. The paper proposes basic LabVIEW structures for several LEGO case study practices. A description of the course as well as an assessment on student competences are also included.

Keywords

control engineering computing; control engineering education; data acquisition; educational courses; mechatronics; mobile robots; virtual instrumentation; Dresden Technical University; LEGO mobile robot; LabVIEW software; M´alaga University; description course; international summer school; mechatronics; Educational programs; Educational robots; Hardware; Instruments; Mechatronics; Mobile robots; Programming profession; Robot control; Robot sensing systems; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics, 2009. ICM 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Malaga

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4194-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4195-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMECH.2009.4957243

Filename

4957243