Development of low-cost robot manipulators for kinematic control practices

Nowadays, dropping out of engineering courses practically occurs in all universities worldwide. Over the past few years, the educational community has been recognizing active learning as a very effective learning method. This article discusses the educational experience associated with conception and development of a low-cost manipulator robot of six degrees of freedom (6-DOF) used to motivate undergraduate students of control and automation engineering and mechanical engineering who had attended robotics elements subject between 2012 and 2013. Moreover, this paper reports the activities executed by the students during this study, and also shows the students review about the methodology applied.