e-Toogle: Education Platform for Cyber-Physical Environments

A Cyber-Physical Systems (or CPS) is a system that combines and coordinates physical and computational elements. The CPS incorporates the ability to act in the physical world with the intelligence of cyber world to add new features to real-world physical systems [1]. Among the various fields of activity of the CPS, can cite security systems, robotics, education, among others. Educational environments are characterized by being favorable places for the introduction of technologies aimed to facilitate the interaction/mediation between subjects and learning’s objects. In this paper, we propose an technological architecture for education, where we identify the main constituents of a cyber-physical learning environment, and their interconnections. The e-Toggle platform is proposed as an implementation for this architecture. It is characterized as being a CPS focused in education and it uses ROS (Robot Operating System) for communication between the real devices and the virtual world. Keywords— Cyber-Physical Systems; CPS; Internet of