An Educational Software for Low Cost Manipulators

Abstract

This study addresses the development of a novel educational tool for robotics education which can be used both in graduate and undergraduate introductory robotics courses. The tool both supports simulator and real controller mode. The tool has flexible characteristics that can be both used by commercial robotic research projects and also for educational issues. The flexibility of the proposed tool also lets researchers developing further modules within the software based on their research problems. The tool will be used in Ankara University for introductory robotic course during next semester. The aspect and software architecture are presented and the details of course curriculum, tool operation modes, learning objectives and software architecture are discussed in details. Finally, projects previously developed and implemented by the tool will be summarized in order to reveal the capacity of the tool.