Arm robot bioloid

L’objectiu del projecte és fer un braç amb el robot Bioloid, i que aquest tingui agafat un got. Desprès, es pugui posar líquid (normalment aigua) i distribuir-la en dos recipients a part amb 50% de líquid a cada u

TJAssist : Car Autopilot System to Assist Driver on Traffic Congestion

This project is about a car autopilot system which take over driving during traffic jam condition. As traffic jam is very serious in Malaysia especially in major cities like Kuala Lumpur, this system will be able to help the driver to utilize the time during traffic jam to conduct other works. The reason for building this system even though autopilot system already existed in the market is because the existing autopilot system in the market are too complex to be implemented into daily use car due to the high number of sensor used in the vehicle and high computing power required. To prove the validity of this project, a prototype of the system will be created with Lego Mindstorms EV3 Education Set. Increment methodology is used to build this prototype as it provide the ability to do rapid analysis and development. The prototype are equipped with the function to follow the car in front at straight road and slight turns. In case of sharp turns or any interference by the driver, the system will stop and return the driving control to the driver. Throughout the autopilot, the driver will be notified continuously on the decision made by the autopilot system via voice notification system. In case the car in front reverses, the system will stop the system and warn the driver about it. After a testing has been done, this prototype managed to achieve an average accuracy level of 89

First Steps into Practical Engineering for Freshman Students Using MATLAB and LEGO Mindstorms Robots

Besides lectures on basic theoretical topics, contemporary teaching and learning concepts for first semester students give more and more consideration to practically motivated courses. In this context, a new first-year introductory course in practical engineering has been established in the first semester curriculum of Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Based on a threefold learning concept, programming skills in MATLAB are taught to 309 students within a full-time block course laboratory. The students are encouraged to transfer known mathematical basics to program algorithms and real-world applications performed by 100 LEGO Mindstorms robots. A new MATLAB toolbox and twofold project tasks have been developed for this purpose by a small team of supervisors. The students are supervised by over 60 tutors at 23 institutes, and are encouraged to create their own robotics applications. We describe how the laboratory motivates the students to act and think like engineers and to solve real-world issues with limited resources. The evaluation results show that the proposed practical course concept successfully boosts students’ motivation, advances their programming skills, and encourages the peer learning process.

INSPIRE Newsletter Fall 2022

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DroidStorm: Development of a Bluetooth based mobile application for autonomous systems

Android application for controlling LEGO MINNDSTORMS NXT robots using Bluetooth. Capable of creating a collaborative robotic system where two robots work together to achieve a given objective.Tormo Franco, TI. (2011). DroidStorm: Development of a Bluetooth based mobile application for autonomous systems. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/15822Archivo delegad

Legodroid: A Type-Driven Library for Android and LEGO Mindstorms Interoperability

LEGO Mindstorms robots are widely used as educational tools to acquire skills in programming complex systems involving the interaction of sensors and actuators, and they offer a flexible and modular workbench to design and evaluate user-machine interaction prototypes in the robotic area. However, there is still a lack of support to interoperability features and the need of high-level tools to program the interaction of a robot with other devices. In this paper, we introduce Legodroid, a new Java library enabling cross-programming LEGO Mindstorms robots through Android smartphones that exploits their combined computational and sensorial capabilities in a seamless way. The library provides a number of type-driven coding patterns for interacting with sensors and motors. In this way, the robustness of the software managing robot's sensors dramatically improves

Child–robot interactions using educational robots: an ethical and inclusive perspective

This research was funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación under Grant FECYT FCT-20-15626, Line of action 2. Education and scientific vocations (2nd place out of 120 awarded).Peer ReviewedObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::5 - Igualtat de GènereObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::9 - Indústria, Innovació i InfraestructuraObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::4 - Educació de QualitatObjectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::10 - Reducció de les DesigualtatsPostprint (published version

Including universal design in a summer camp workshop on robotics

In this paper we will describe a summer camp short-course intended for high-school students with excellent qualifications. The course is addressed to students who are thinking on studying a technical career including a section on universal design for the first time. The department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Universitat de Barcelona will host a workshop on robotics next summer within the context of Campus Científicos de Verano by Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología.. High-school students will be selected around Spain based on their qualifications and motivation to attend the workshop. The first activity in the summer camp will be the building of Lego Mindstorms robots. These robots contain several sensors and actuators that can be programmed to do different tasks. One of the robots will be programmed to be able to track a line and another two will be programmed to do a Sumo fight on their own. Students will learn how to use sensors and actuators and code programming algorithms. For the second activity the students will develop a Mobile App with the MIT App Inventor2 software [1] in order to control the robots. In this activity students will learn how to program apps in a simple way to complete their understanding of programming. Taking into account European Higher Education Area requirements for Accessibility in technical careers, this workshop will introduce an innovation; the third activity will consist in the adaptation of the app and robots for multimodal access (including sound and sight redundant warnings) and the readjustment of the app’s buttons for users with motor and visual disabilities (e.g. making the buttons bigger and with non-repeating behaviour). Students attending the summer camp will be introduced to the needs and skills of different user profiles of people with disabilities. After this theoretical introduction, they will experience motor and visual disabilities with simulations inspired by the Inclusive design Toolkit resource [2] ].And finally, they will modify the app based on IEEE RWEP Accessible apps by Ayanna Howard [3] so to maximise the accessibility possibilities of App Inventor. Complementary resources will be made available to those students showing interest in this area, such as RWEP prosthetic hands projects, other toolkits and bibliography. This will serve as a first experience for the students and there is no prevision of including technical aids such as GRID2 or similar [4] due to budget restrictions. There are no students with disabilities registered for this year edition so the course does not seek accessibility for participants as authors. We will consider working on accessibility for participants of the following editions of this workshop, building on past experiences reaching this goal [5] [6] [7]. The main focus of the workshop is to encourage the creative learning of a robots summer camp [8], [9] with the inclusion of universal design as an essential requirement in the design and development of computer applications or systems. With this initiative we want to increase awareness on accessibility requirements for future technical students.PID U