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Abstract:The free hardware platforms have become very important in engineering education in recent years. Among these platforms, Arduino highlights, characterized by its versatility, popularity and low price. This paper describes the implementation of four laboratory experiments for Automatic Control and Robotics courses at the University of Alicante, which have been developed based on Arduino and other existing equipment. Results were evaluated taking into account the views of students, concluding that the proposed experiments have been attractive to them, and they have acquired the knowledge about hardware configuration and programming that was intended.

In this article, a personal computer disassembly cell is presented. With this cell, a certain degree of automatism is afforded for the non-destructive disassembly process and for the recycling of these kinds of mass-produced electronic products. Each component of the product can be separated. The disassembly cell is composed of several sub-systems, each of which is dedicated to the planning and execution of one type of task. A computer vision system is employed for the recognition and localisation of the product and of each of its components. The disassembly system proposed here also has a modelling system for the products and each of its components, the information necessary for the planning of tasks, generating the disassembly sequence and planning of the disassembly movements. These systems co-operate with each other to achieve a semi-automatic disassembly of the product.

An algorithm is presented that is based on a representation

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A fully integrated development tool for computer vision systems has been built in the framewo r k o f t h i s p a p e r . There are many applications that help the user in the design of such systems, using graphical interfaces and function libraries. Even in some cases, the nal source code can be generated by these applications. This paper goes a step beyond it allows the development of computer vision systems from a distributed environment. Besides, and as a distinctive c haracteristic with regard to other similar utilities, the system is able to automatically optimize task scheduling and assignment, depending on the available hardware.

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