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Educational Environment for Robotic Applications in Engineering

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Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2011 (EUROBOT 2011)

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This paper describes an initiative which uses low-cost mobile robots to create both robotics courses and learning environment to support the teaching of computing and many other related disciplines. The pursued principle is that lower cost alternatives that can meet the educational needs, since it is accompanied by an environment with friendly software interface. In this sense, the hardware interface was developed to allow the computer to process data from the sensors and actuators of the mobile robot. This architecture is adequate because of the acceptance of students in their use, since the environment is developed within a familiar platform to them.

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  1. Laboratory of Integrated Automation and Robotics, Mechanical Engineering Dep., State University of Campinas, P.O. Box 6122, 13083970, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Silas F. R. Alves & João M. Rosário

  2. Laboratory of Integration of Intelligent Systems and Devices, Computer Dep., Sciences Faculty, University of São Paulo State, P.O. Box 473, 17033360, Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil

    Humberto Ferasoli Filho, Renê Pegoraro, Marco A. C. Caldeira & Wilson M. Yonezawa

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Malostranské náměstí 25, 118 00, Praha 1, Czech Republic

    David Obdržálek

  2. Electrical Engineering, SRH University of Applied Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany

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Alves, S.F.R., Ferasoli Filho, H., Pegoraro, R., Caldeira, M.A.C., Rosário, J.M., Yonezawa, W.M. (2011). Educational Environment for Robotic Applications in Engineering. In: Obdržálek, D., Gottscheber, A. (eds) Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2011. EUROBOT 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 161. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21975-7_3

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