A Low-Cost Real-Time Mobile Robot Platform (ArEduBot) to support Project-Based Learning in Robotics & Mechatronics
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چکیده
We discuss aspects of development of a low-cost realtime mobile-robot platform – ArEduBot for educational experiments. Our framework leverages ease-ofprogramming in block-diagrammatic form within the MATLAB/Simulink environment, together with several special-blocks developed within our Arduino-Simulink Toolbox 1 . The executable, compiled using the Real-Time-Workshop toolchain, can be downloaded for standalone real-time execution on an Arduino controller board interfaced to an iRobot Create mobile base. Our goal is to deploy this framework in introductory robotics and mechatronics classes, to complement the lecture and to support project-based learning. From this perspective, we compare the ease-of-use of multiple deployment architectures, describe our block-implementation within the Arduino Simulink Toolbox, and present several example experiments created using this framework. Keywords— project-based learning, mechatronics, robotics, arduino, simulink, matlab, educational platforms, mechatronicsenabled teaching and training; software design for system integration
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