Distance learning in robotics and automation by remote control of Lego mobile robots

Author

Carusi, Fabio ; Casini, Marco ; Prattichizzo, Domenico ; Vicino, Antonio

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ingegneria dell´´ Informazione, Siena Univ., Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

April 26-May 1, 2004

Firstpage

1820

Abstract

This paper presents the Automatic Control Telelab (ACT), a remote laboratory for education in robotics and automation developed in Siena. A special attention is devoted to the new ACT process, a Lego mobile robot, which has been recently added to the telelab. Remote users can control the Lego mobile robot, and all the other processes, using an Internet browser. Moreover users can design new controllers by means of the Matlab/Simulink environment. The ACT home page is http://www.dii.unisi.it/∼control/act.

Keywords

Internet; control engineering education; digital simulation; distance learning; mobile robots; online front-ends; telerobotics; Automatic Control Telelab; Internet browser; Lego mobile robots; Matlab/Simulink environment; Siena; automation; distance learning; remote control; remote laboratory; robotics education; Automatic control; Computer aided instruction; Computer languages; Control systems; Educational robots; Internet; Mobile robots; Remote laboratories; Robot control; Robotics and automation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2004. Proceedings. ICRA '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8232-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2004.1308088

Filename

1308088