New design of Robotics Remote lab

Sensors, 2013

This paper describes the design and implementation of a virtual and remote laboratory based on Easy Java Simulations (EJS) and LabVIEW. The main application of this laboratory is to improve the study of sensors in Mobile Robotics, dealing with the problems that arise on the real world experiments. This laboratory allows the user to work from their homes, tele-operating a real robot that takes measurements from its sensors in order to obtain a map of its environment. In addition, the application allows interacting with a robot simulation (virtual laboratory) or with a real robot (remote laboratory), with the same simple and intuitive graphical user interface in EJS. Thus, students can develop signal processing and control algorithms for the robot in simulation and then deploy them on the real robot for testing purposes. Practical examples of application of the laboratory on the inter-University Master of Systems Engineering and Automatic Control are presented.

The new tools for education of engineering emerged and one of the most promising is a remote rapid control prototyping (RRCP), which is very useful also for control and robotics development in industry and in education. Examples of introductory remote control and simple robotics courses with integrated hands on experiments are presented in the paper. The aim of integration of remote hands on experiments into control and/or robotics course is to minimize the gap between the theory and practice to teach students the use of RRCP and to decrease the education costs. Developed RRCP experiments are based on MATLAB/Simulink, xPC target, custom developed embedded target for DSP-2 controller and LabVIEW virtual instrument.

2006

This paper presents a distance laboratory that enables the remote testing of coupled and non-coupled control algorithms in robot manipulators. The developed laboratory allows the users to use predefined controllers or design their own controllers using the Matlab-Simulink environment. The targeted controllers (designed by the users) can use S-Functions, which they can create themselves using C language; this functionality permits the creation and testing of complex controllers in an easy and fast way. This system uses Matlab-Simulink for practice processing and the Real Time Workshop Toolbox (RTW) such as real time kernel. The laboratory allows simple integration of new robots for control experiments. At present it has a robot manipulator with five degrees of freedom in Cuba, which uses two degrees of freedom for carrying out experiments. The laboratory has been used since year 2003 in identification and control theory in undergraduate courses in Universidad Central Marta Abreu' de las Villas and Universidad de Cienfuegos in Cuba, and in robotics and advanced control postgraduate courses in Instituto Tecnolo Âgico de Minatitla Ân in Mexico.

2011

The direct work on a real setups is an important experience for students in control theory and robotics. On the other hand, for several reasons (space, costs, complexity, etc.), it is not always possible to give students an individual access to laboratory setups , for their practical activities. Therefore, in recent years many tele-laboratories have been implemented by different universities, providing experimental setups to each student, while minimizing problems related to costs, spaces, and so on. The UniBot Remote Lab has been implemented to provide remote access via TCP connection, to assign to students different time-slots for their experiences, and to reduce the financial effort required by real setups. Moreover, the entire framework has been developed with high modularity both from the hardware and software point of view and, even if the basic setup has been conceived for mobile robotics, different kind of robots or automatic machines can be easily added and be available for experimental activities.

Scalable E-Learning Tools for Engineering and Science Disciplines, 2012

This chapter describes the use of Matlab Real Time Workshop (RTW) for implementing an Internet Accessible Laboratory (IAL) for teaching robot control. The IAL architecture consists of three key components-IAL Web Application, IAL database, and a set of robot control schemes prepared for students' laboratory curriculum that are running in Matlab RTW. The IAL management system supports multilingual access and enables easy addition of new users, new robotic systems, and new laboratory exercises related to robot control. The IAL functionality is demonstrated with the example of controlling a four degrees of freedom SCARA robot.

IEEE Symposium on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA, 2007

This paper describes the development of a remote laboratory in the area of automatic and robotic engineering. The laboratory is based on an educational platform around a robotic arm that allows emulating a practical laboratory in which engineering students can confirm their theoretical results comparing them with the real paths traced by the robot. Thus, the research work presented in the article is directed towards the adaptation of concepts in the field of robotics and control in a remote laboratory.

Jurnal Teknologi, 2022

This research aims to provide solutions for practical learning in the vocational field of mechatronic engineering during the Covid-19 pandemic. In order for vocational students to become skilled and competent, a considerable number of hours of practice is required. Meanwhile, to prevent the spread of Covid-19, restrictions on face-to-face meetings have been imposed. To make the number of hours of student practice sufficient without having to meet face to face, a remote laboratory is presented, which can be accessed by students easily, anytime and anywhere. The developed remote laboratory uses real equipment, in the form of the Mitsubishi RV-M1 Industrial Robot, which is monitored by 3 cameras, and can be controlled via the internet. The use of a real robot, not a simulation, is intended so that students can feel the experience as if they were practicing the robot directly. This remote laboratory for the practice of programming the Mitsubishi RV-M1 Industrial Robot has been successfully developed and is already being used by mechatronics students at the vocational faculty of Sanata Dharma University. Most of the students gave a good response to this remote laboratory, because students got a new and interesting experience. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this remote laboratory, a comparison is shown of the average time for searching for the position of an object directly and indirectly through the remote laboratory. From the results of the comparison, the average time to search for the position of an object directly ranges from 1-2 minutes, while through a remote laboratory it ranges from 2-3 minutes, which is considered to be within reasonable limits.

1995

This paper describes ongoing work toward a remote robotics research site which allows repeatable remote experimentation on multiple mobile robots. Our system consists of ten small mobile robots hosting onboard Unix workstations. The robots provide facilities for sensing and moving obstacles, inter-robot positioning and communications, and user input. The Unix workstations allow the user to control the robots using common languages in a familiar e n vironment, while also providing an interface to mass-market peripherals secondary storage and vision, network access telnet, FTP, mail, and HTTP, and robust multi-tasking. We believe t h a t t h i s w ork provides a foundation for future e orts toward new paradigms for remote research a n d user interaction with taskable hardware e.g., colonies of application-speci c robots. We e n vision applications in such domains as agriculture, environmental monitoring, and deep-space exploration.

2015

In frame of the project KEGA 027STU-4/2014 at our institute, we are building a virtual laboratory of robotics. The main objective is to build a laboratory together with a set of training modules in the field of automation and industrial robotics that will serve to teach the principles of automatic control of manipulation and programming of industrial robots, which are now increasingly implemented in production practice. Built laboratory will develop the knowledge and expertise of students in the field of automated and robotic systems, application of innovative educational program and methodology of using modern technologies, including CA and e-learning.

The direct work on a real set-ups is an important experience for students in control theory and robotics.On the other hand, for several reasons (space, costs, complexity, etc.), it is not always possible to give students an individual access to laboratory set-ups, for their practical activities. Therefore, in recent years many tele-laboratories have been implemented by different universities, providing experimental set-ups to each student, while minimizing problems related to costs, spaces, and so on. The UniBot Remote Lab has been implemented to provide remote access via TCP connection, to assign to students different time-slots for their experiences, and to reduce the financial effort required by real set-ups. Moreover, the entire framework has been developed with high modularity both from the hardware and software point of view and, even if the basic set-up has been conceived for mobile robotics, different kind of robots or automatic machines can be easily added and be available ...