Flexible Educational Robotic System for a Practical Course

Zhang, Houxiang; Zheng, Weining; Chen, Shengyong; Zhang, Jianwei; Wang, Wei; Zong, Guanghua

doi:10.1109/icitechnology.2007.4290408

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“…An additional feature of this virtual laboratory is its architecture, allowing for an easy integration of new processes for control experiments. In (Zhang et al 2007), Zhang et. al.…”

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Recycling A Discarded Robotic Arm For Automation Engineering Education

Sanfilippo¹,

Osen²,

Alaliyat³

2014

ECMS 2014 Proceedings Edited By: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti, Marco Castellani

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Robotics and automation technology instruction is an important component of the industrial engineering education curriculum. Industrial engineering and automation departments must continuously develop and update their laboratory resources and pedagogical tools in order to provide their students with adequate and effective study plans. While acquiring stateof-the-art manufacturing equipment can be financially demanding, a great effort is made at Aalesund University College to provide the students with an improved hands-on automation integration experience without major capital investments. In particular, a strategy that consists of recycling electronic and robot disposals is adopted. Students are engaged in a real reverse engineering process and then challenged to find new possible applications and uses. By adopting a pedagogical prospective, this paper introduces the design and implementation of a robot control system on a hardware platform based on a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). In particular, the controlled robot is a Sykerobot 600-5 manipulator with five degrees of freedom (DOFs) that was disposed of by the industry several years ago as electronic waste. Particular emphasis is placed on the pedagogical effectiveness of the proposed control architecture.

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“…An additional feature of this virtual laboratory is its architecture, allowing for an easy integration of new processes for control experiments. In (Zhang et al 2007), Zhang et. al.…”

Section: Related Research Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recycling A Discarded Robotic Arm For Automation Engineering Education

Sanfilippo¹,

Osen²,

Alaliyat³

2014

ECMS 2014 Proceedings Edited By: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti, Marco Castellani

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“…Students are familiar with LEGO, thinking of it as an interesting toy [4], [6]. LEGO Mindstorms has advantages as an educational tool [6][7][8]: students find it is very simple to handle; any system made with LEGO Mindstorms can be disassembled and assembled into a different system again. With LEGO Mindstorms, students can develop the robots they want and control them easily.…”

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A creative engineering design course for freshman using LEGO robots

Min

Seo

Kim

et al. 2009

2009 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

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High-quality courses offered to freshman engineering students can help them to develop into excellent engineers. Freshman-year courses have a great impact on these students. Students can learn what real engineers do by learning important aspects of an engineering career in their courses. Thus, improving the educational effect of courses is an important issue. Many design courses are offered to freshman engineering students at colleges around the world. This paper discusses a design course at SungKyunKwan University that uses LEGO. The course was offered from 2006 to 2008, and will be again in the future. This paper discusses a project-based course using LEGO that will be carried out in 2009 and its expected educational effects.I.

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