Title :
A force-feedback joystick for control and robotics education - affordable software for educational institutions
Author :
Osborne, Padraig ; McLellan, Ryan ; McEvoy, Neil ; Hashtrudi-Zaad, Keyvan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Canada
Abstract :
This article describes a project that converts low-cost commercially available force feedback joysticks into flexible experimental facilities for control systems education and virtual reality simulations without hardware modifications. The software allows educational institutions to offer affordable hands-on laboratories, featuring a traditional or discovery-learning approach. With intuitive software running in the MATLAB environment, it is now possible to introduce large undergraduate classes to control engineering.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; computer aided software engineering; control engineering computing; control engineering education; engineering facilities; student experiments; virtual reality; control engineering; control systems education; discovery-learning approach; flexible experimental facilities; force-feedback joystick; intuitive software; virtual reality simulations; Control engineering education; Control system synthesis; Educational institutions; Educational robots; Force control; Force feedback; Hardware; Laboratories; Robot control; Virtual reality;
Journal_Title :
Control Systems, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MCS.2004.1337866
