Development of low-cost robot manipulators for kinematic control practices

Author

Naves Cocota, Jose Alberto ; Pinheiro dos Santos, Tiago ; Magalhaes, Paulo Henrique ; D´Angelo, Thiago ; Castanheira, Luciana

Author_Institution

Dept. de Eng. de Controle e Automacao, Univ. Federai de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

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.

Keywords

control engineering education; educational courses; educational institutions; further education; manipulator kinematics; active learning; automation engineering; control engineering; engineering courses; kinematic control practices; low-cost robot manipulators; mechanical engineering; six degrees of freedom; undergraduate students; universities; Decision support systems; CAE; active learning; direct and inverse kinematics; kinematic control; robotics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2014 IEEE

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2014.7044232

Filename

7044232