Biomechanical study of the Spider Crab as inspiration for the development of a biomimetic robot

A problem faced by oil companies is the maintenance of the location register of pipelines that cross the surf zone, the regular survey of their location, and also their inspection. A survey of the state of art did not allow identifying operating systems capable of executing such tasks. Commercial technologies available on the market also do not address this problem and/or do not satisfy the presented requirements. A possible solution is to use robotic systems which have the ability to walk on the shore and in the surf zone, subject to existing currents and ripples, and being able to withstand these ambient conditions. In this sense, the authors propose the development of a spider crab biologically inspired robot to achieve those tasks. Based on these ideas, this work presents a biomechanical study of the spider crab, its modeling and simulation using the SimMechanics toolbox of Matlab/Simulink, which is the first phase of this more vast project. Results show a robot model that is moving in an “animal like” manner, the locomotion, the algorithm presented in this paper allows the crab to walk sideways, in the desired direction.N/

Using plantar pressures for improving arch support for shoe customization

The footwear industry is evolving from a laborintensive work to a knowledge-based manufacturing process, developing customized and personalized products in order to meet the customer needs [1]. Pathologies like high arch and flat foot are widely studied and some orthoses have shown positive results in treatment [1, 4]. The objective of this work was to customize the design of a comfort shoe (Arcopédico), so it could be adapted to three major foot types (pes cavus, planus and normal).N/

Laboratórios Remotos e Simulações: Será que os estudantes percebem realmente a diferença?

Este trabalho descreve sumariamente implementações didáticas, levadas a cabo em duas Instituições de Ensino Superior: a Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brasil) e o Instituto Superior de Engenharia, do Politécnico do Porto (Portugal), em duas unidades curriculares, respetivamente Cálculo IV e Física Aplicada, de cursos de Engenharia, no ano letivo de 2017.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Una Federación de Laboratorios Remotos VISIR a través del Proyecto PILAR

Este documento describe cómo un nuevo proyecto Erasmus+, PILAR (Plataform Integration of Laboratories base don the Architecture of visiR), está siendo desarrollado y cómo la puesta en marcha del partenariado y del proyecto está reforzando la red VISIR (Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality) y el Grupo de Interés Especial de VISIR bajo el Consorcio de Laboratorios online (GOLC - Global Online Laboratory Consortium) de la Asociación Internacional de Ingeniería Online (IAOE - International Association of Online Engineering. La Universidad Española para la Educación a Distancia (UNED) coordina este proyecto que tiene como objetivo federar los sistemas existentes (o nuevos) con el fin de utilizar los recursos de manera más efectiva y eficiente, haciendo transparente para el usuario final la elección de los recursos compartidos.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Chapter 1

Experimenting is fundamental to the training process of all scientists and engineers. While experiments have been traditionally done inside laboratories, the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies added two alter-natives accessible anytime, anywhere. These two alternatives are known as virtual and remote labs, and are sometimes indistinguishably referred as online labs. Sim-ilarly to other instructional technologies, virtual and remote labs require some ef-fort from teachers in integrating them into curricula, taking into consideration sev-eral factors that affect their adoption (i.e. cost) and their educational effectiveness (i.e. benefit). This chapter analyses these two dimensions and sustains the case where only through international cooperation it is possible to serve the large num-ber of teachers and students involved in engineering education. It presents an ex-ample in the area of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, based on a remote lab named Virtual Instruments System in Reality, and it then describes how a number of European and Latin-American institutions have been cooperating under the scope of an Erasmus+ project2, for spreading its use in Brazil and Argentina.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

A comprehensive VISIR bibliographical reference

VISIR (Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality) is a remote laboratory environment in use in research and academic institutions since 2001. This paper presents a comprehensive VISIR bibliographical reference, including a performance analysis, which reviews the publication data and the citation indexes, and a science mapping, that presents the cognitive structure. The procedure to retrieve, aggregate, process, and analyze data is based on documented sources and is also presented in the article, including some comments on specific issues faced while applying the proposed methodology. The paper characterizes the publication evolution over time, the most prolific authors and their networks, the main research topics, the most frequent sources, and the most cited documents. The available results show a mature and evolving collaborative network and an expansion trend that allows predicting that VISIR is not only the source of many academic and applied research publications, but also a popular and continuously developing remote laboratory and the basis of a very active community.The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the VISIR federation in compiling much of the presented information and the partial support of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), through grant UIDB/04730/2020.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Ricardo Costa Gustavo R. Alves, Clara Viegas, André Fidalgo, Maria Arcelina Marques, Natércia Lima

La sostenibilidad es actualmente una preocupación generalizada en la sociedad y en particular en el uso de laboratorios con fines educativos. Aunque los laboratorios son instalaciones inevitables para la educación, a menudo producen desechos como resultado de los experimentos de los estudiantes. Para contribuir a soluciones sostenibles en la educación, el uso de laboratorios remotos en lugar de los tradicionales laboratorios prácticos debe considerarse en todos los cursos de ingeniería. Es precisamente este aspecto el que se discute en el presente documento. Se hacen algunos comentarios sobre la importancia de la sostenibilidad en la educación. Posteriormente, se describe el uso de un laboratorio remoto llamado VISIR en un curso realizado en la Escuela Politécnica de Porto - Escuela de Ingeniería, para la conducción de un experimento electrónico llamado Schmitt Trigger.Sustainability is currently a general concern in society and in particular in the use of laboratories for educational purposes. Although laboratories are unavoidable facilities for education, they often produce waste resulting from students' experiments. To contribute for sustainable solutions in education, the use of remote laboratories instead of the traditional hands-on laboratories should be considered in every engineering course. It is precisely this aspect that is discussed in the current paper. Some comments about the importance of sustainability in education are made. Later, it is described the use of a remote laboratory named VISIR in a course held at the Polytechnic of Porto -- School of Engineering, for the conduction of an electronic experiment named Schmitt Trigger. At the end, some comments about the contribution of this remote lab for sustainability in education, are provided.Fil: Alves, Gustavo R. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería de Oporto. Porto; PortugalFil: Castro, Manuel. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. Madrid; EspañaFil: Costa, Gustavo. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería de Oporto. Porto; PortugalFil: Felgueiras, Carlos. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería de Oporto. Porto; PortugalFil: Fernandez, Ruben. Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero. Santiago del Estero; ArgentinaFil: Fidalgo, André. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería de Oporto. Porto; PortugalFil: García Zubía, Javier. Universidad de Deusto. Bilbao; EspañaFil: Kulesza, Wlodek. Instituto de Tecnología de Blekinge. Karlskrona; SueciaFil: Lima. Natércia. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería de Oporto. Porto; PortugalFil: Marchisio, Susana. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Rosario; ArgentinaFil: Marques, Maria Arcelina. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería de Oporto. Porto; PortugalFil: Oliveira, Vanderli. Universidad Federal de Juiz de Fora. Juiz de Fora; BrasilFil: Pavani, Ana. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Río de Janeiro. Río de Janeiro; BrasilFil: Pester, Andreas. Carinthia University of Applied Sciences. Klagenfurt; AustriaFil: Pozzo, María Isabel. CONICET. Rosario; ArgentinaFil: Schlichting, Luis C. M. Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis; BrasilFil: Silva, Juarez Bento. Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis; BrasilFil: Viegas, Clara. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería de Oporto. Porto; Portuga

A sustainable approach to let students do more real experiments with electrical and electronic circuits

The present paper focus on the use of remote laboratories in higher education from a sustainability viewpoint. The particular case of engineering education, and, within it, the more specific subject of experiments with electrical and electronic circuits is presented first, to then discuss the benefits of using remote labs, while considering the three dimensions of sustainable development, i.e.: economic practice, environmental protection, and social integration. The paper debates how remote labs address each dimension.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio