Real: A Virtual Laboratory for Mobile Robot Experiments

Guimarães, Eliane G.; Maffeis, Antonio T.; Pereira, James L.; Russo, Bruno G.; Bergerman, Marcel; Cardozo, Eleri; Magalhães, Mauricio Ferreira

doi:10.1016/s1474-6670(17)41722-8

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“…Writing such software is a major undertaking so the use of commercial software can be efficient. Some faculty members have used MS NetMeeting [57] or MATLAB/Simulink [58] to provide access to laboratories, while others have developed their own systems [59,60].…”

Section: Hands-off Laboratories: Distance Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of the Laboratory in Undergraduate Engineering Education

Feisel

Rosa

2005

Journal of Engineering Education

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The function of the engineering profession is to manipulate materials, energy, and information, thereby creating benefit for humankind. To do this successfully, engineers must have a knowledge of nature that goes beyond mere theory-knowledge that is traditionally gained in educational laboratories. Over the years, however, the nature of these laboratories has changed. This paper describes the history of some of these changes and explores in some depth a few of the major factors influencing laboratories today. In particular, the paper considers the lack of coherent learning objectives for laboratories and how this lack has limited the effectiveness of laboratories and hampered meaningful research in the area. A list of fundamental objectives is presented along with suggestions for possible future research.

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Section: Hands-off Laboratories: Distance Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of the Laboratory in Undergraduate Engineering Education

Feisel

Rosa

2005

Journal of Engineering Education

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781

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“…The students are provided the following set of equations to work with: n e r e f a S S S ct (7) n p e P K S (8) n i e I I K S (9) dutyRatio P I (10) where, S e n = Current Speed Error, S ref = Reference Speed, S act = Actual Speed, P = Proportional Control Factor, I = Integral Control Factor, K p = Proportion Gain, K i = Integral Gain.…”

Section: Activity 3: P-and Pi-control Of Motor Speedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition some authors [8] have used fuzzy logic algorithms to teach speed control of DC motors with some success. The use of virtual laboratory through REAL (Remotely Accessible Laboratory) for conducting mobile robot experiments have been reported [9]. Very effective project based learning, in hi-tech education, has been through the use of robot soccer system to implement a multi-agent collaborative system [10].…”

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A project based approach to teach mixed-signal embedded microcontroller for DC motor control

Gupta

Mukhopadhyay

Tin

2006

Third IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Design, Test and Applications (DELTA'06)

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A project based approach has been adopted to teach matlab/simulink based controller design, mixed signal embedded microcontroller (SiLab C8051F020) based implementation of the controller for DC motor speed control project, the laboratory part of the subject 143.335 Instrumentation, Electronics and Control Engineering at Massey University, New Zealand. The students developed a Matlab/Simulink based model to study the theoretical part of the controller design. The microcontroller based PID controller implementation was divided into five activities and each activity was assessed at regular intervals. The student feedback has been collected, the survey of which shows that the objectives were successfully met. Reference Speed (RPM) ----> Error Speed (RPM) ---->Kp = 0.1 Kp = 0.25 Kp = 0.5 Kp = 0.75 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Design, Test and Applications (DELTA'06) 0-7695-2500-8/05 $20.00 © 2005 IEEE

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“…In addition some authors [8] have used fuzzy logic algorithms to teach speed control of DC motors with some success. The use of virtual laboratory through REAL (Remotely Accessible Laboratory) for conducting mobile robot experiments have been reported [9]. An increase in the understanding of several power electronics circuit is possible through simulation and circuit simulation can be used as an aid in teaching the principles of power electronics [10].…”

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SMPC: A Problem Based Approach to Enhance Student's Learning on Instrumentation and Measurements

Mukhopadhyay

2007

2007 IEEE Instrumentation &Amp; Measurement Technology Conference IMTC 2007

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Towards the enhancement ofstudents' learning ofthe topic of Switched Mode Power Converter (SMPC) as a subset of bigger picture on Instrumentation and Measurements, a part of the paper is kept as project work and fabrication. The students were formed into groups and each group was asked to design, fabricate a SMPC with given specification and conduct experiment on it. This was done to develop their familiarity with design and implementation of a electronic problem and to enhance their knowledge ofproblem thinking and solving. The projects were closely linked with practical real-life applications to make them more interesting to the students. The students were instructed to use PROTEL and MATLAB to formulate and solve the problem. At the end of the project they were asked to produce their own written report. The students' opinion has been surveyed and it shows the project based approach has enhanced their learning of the subject.

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Real: A Virtual Laboratory for Mobile Robot Experiments

Cited by 16 publications

References 8 publications

The Role of the Laboratory in Undergraduate Engineering Education

The Role of the Laboratory in Undergraduate Engineering Education

A project based approach to teach mixed-signal embedded microcontroller for DC motor control

SMPC: A Problem Based Approach to Enhance Student's Learning on Instrumentation and Measurements

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