Board 61: Work in Progress: Introductory Mobile Robotics and Computer Vision Laboratories Using ROS and MATLAB

Avanzato, Robert Louis; Wilcox, Culllen

doi:10.18260/1-2--30072

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“…MathWorks' release of its ROS Toolbox allows much easier interaction with ROS-enabled physical robots or simulators (such as Gazebo). Students can also use many other MATLAB Toolboxes (such as Image Processing and Navigation Toolboxes) for fast data processing and algorithm prototyping (Avanzato, 2020;Avanzato & Wilcox, 2020).…”

Section: Vision-based Control Of Autonomous Robot Using Matlab-rosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Online robotics technology course design by balancing workload and affect

Wang

et al. 2023

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This paper describes our course design approach that successfully transformed an undergraduate Robotics Technology course from in-person teaching to online guided by the TASKS model. Our course redesign process includes identifying conflicts, generating solutions, self-evaluation, and analyses of design solutions. We carefully balanced between Workload and students’ Affect, by designing comparable workloads as before, as well as maintaining students’ motivation similarly at the in-person level. Transforming this course consisting of lecture sessions and lab sessions with hardware and software elements yielded a set of course activities and teaching practices applicable to online teaching of other courses. When physical robots become unavailable, simulation projects were designed as alternatives and simulated versions of those physical projects used in face-to-face classroom. These simulation projects are in the areas of autonomous mobile robots, robotic manipulator, and advanced robotic control on MATLAB-ROS, respectively. Comparisons with past in-person results confirm that effective learning has been achieved remotely, having maintained student’s performance and motivation.

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Section: Vision-based Control Of Autonomous Robot Using Matlab-rosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Online robotics technology course design by balancing workload and affect

Wang

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“…In the last five years ROS middleware has become the de facto standard in the robotics research community [20][21][22][23] and has also increased its presence in education [24][25][26][27]. Some of these works combine or compare ROS and MATLAB [28][29][30].…”

Section: Robotics Teaching In Higher Educationmentioning

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A ROS-Based Open Tool for Intelligent Robotics Education

Plaza

Perdices²,

García-Pérez

et al. 2020

Applied Sciences

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This paper presents an open-access platform for practical learning of intelligent robotics in engineering degrees: Robotics-Academy. It comprises a collection of exercises including recent service robot applications in real life, with different robots such as autonomous cars, drones or vacuum cleaners. It uses Robot Operating System (ROS) middleware, the de facto standard in robot programming, the 3D Gazebo simulator and the Python programming language. For each exercise, a software template has been developed, performing all the auxiliary tasks such as the graphical interface, connection to the sensors and actuators, timing of the code, etc. This also hosts the student’s code. Using this template, the student just focuses on the robot intelligence (for instance, perception and control algorithms) without wasting time on auxiliary details which have little educational value. The templates are coded as ROS nodes or as Jupyter Notebooks ready to use in the web browser. Reference solutions for illustrative purposes and automatic assessment tools for gamification have also been developed. An introductory course to intelligent robotics has been elaborated and its contents are available and ready to use at Robotics-Academy, including reactive behaviors, path planning, local/global navigation, and self-localization algorithms. Robotics-Academy provides a valuable complement to master classes in blended learning, massive online open courses (MOOCs) and online video courses, devoted to addressing theoretical content. This open educational tool connects that theory with practical robot applications and is suitable to be used in distance education. Robotics-Academy has been successfully used in several subjects on undergraduate and master’s degree engineering courses, in addition to a pre-university pilot course.

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“…As can be noted from the literature, ROS is powerful technology but has a steep learning curve, which makes the interface with MATLAB an attractive alternative for educators. Several educators have reported results integrating MATLAB Robotics Toolkit with ROS middleware for mobile robotics [8], [9]. to improve student accessibility.…”

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Development of a MATLAB/ROS Interface to a Low-cost Robot Arm

Avanzato

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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Development of a MATLAB Robotics Toolbox ROS interface and educational resources for a low-cost robot arm (Dobot Magician) in a senior-level robotics design course are described. The objectives of the study were to evaluate the effectiveness of a MATLAB interface to ROS services to control an articulated robot manipulator and conveyor belt in a laboratory setting. Laboratory exercises are described that expose students to the MATLAB/ROS interface, the basics of robot manipulator programming and an introduction to computer vision. Student survey data shows a positive response to the MATLAB/ROS strategy with the robot. The significance of this study is that a low-cost robot arm with a professional-level ROS/MATLAB software interface can greatly improve student access to advanced, hands-on, project-based education in intelligent manufacturing and Industry 4.0.

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Board 61: Work in Progress: Introductory Mobile Robotics and Computer Vision Laboratories Using ROS and MATLAB

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Online robotics technology course design by balancing workload and affect

Online robotics technology course design by balancing workload and affect

A ROS-Based Open Tool for Intelligent Robotics Education

Development of a MATLAB/ROS Interface to a Low-cost Robot Arm

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