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Real-Time Matlab-Simulink-Lego EV3 Framework for Teaching Robotics Subjects

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Robotics in Education (RiE 2018)

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This work develops a new educational platform based on the Matlab-Simulink package for the teaching of robotics using the Lego EV3 platform. The majority of Lego platforms used in the literature are NXT platforms, as the EV3 platform is relatively new (January 2013). Moreover, in contrast to previous Lego robot versions, this platform allows to develop a real-time framework to teach Robotics subjects. The framework is based in Matlab, the most widely used programming environment with LEGO Mindstorms, and employs the package provided by MathWorks. The proposed framework is tested here for a new motion planning algorithm, where the user can interact with the environment and the robot in real-time via a web camera. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first time a real-time application, capable to interact with the student, is developed to teach Robotics with EV3 platforms.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Physics and Technological Sciences, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU, CEU Universities, C/San Bartolome 55, CP 46115, Alfara del Patriarca (Valencia), Spain

    Nicolás Montés, Nuria Rosillo & Lucia Hilario

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Construction, Universitat Jaume I, Avda. de Vicent Sos Baynat s/n, Castellón de la Plana, Spain

    Marta Covadonga Mora

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  1. Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Vienna, Austria

    Wilfried Lepuschitz

  2. Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Vienna, Austria

    Munir Merdan

  3. Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Vienna, Austria

    Gottfried Koppensteiner

  4. Slovak University of Technology (STU), Bratislava, Slovakia

    Richard Balogh

  5. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    David Obdržálek

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Montés, N., Rosillo, N., Mora, M.C., Hilario, L. (2019). Real-Time Matlab-Simulink-Lego EV3 Framework for Teaching Robotics Subjects. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 829. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97085-1_23

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