A realistic simulation environment as a teaching aid in educational robotics

Lima, José; Kalbermatter, Rebeca B.; Braun, João; Brito, Thadeu; Berger, Guido; Costa, Paulo Gomes da

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Lima, José

Kalbermatter, Rebeca B.

Braun, João

Brito, Thadeu

Berger, Guido

Costa, Paulo Gomes da

Abstract(s)

The experimental component is an essential method in Engineering education. Sometimes the availability of laboratories and components is compromised, and the COVID-19 pandemic worsened the situation. Resorting to an accurate simulation seems to help this process by allowing students to develop the work, program, test, and validate it. Moreover, it lowers the development time and cost of the prototyping stages of a robotics project. As a multidisciplinary area, robotics requires simulation environments with essential characteristics, such as dynamics, connection to hardware (embedded systems), and other applications. Thus, this paper presents the Simulation environment of SimTwo, emphasizing previous publications with models of sensors, actuators, and simulation scenes. The simulator can be used for free, and the source code is available to the community. Proposed scenes and examples can inspire the development of other simulation scenes to be used in electrical and mechanical Engineering projects. © 2022 IEEE.

Keywords

STEM Robotics Education

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http://hdl.handle.net/10198/27406

Citation

Lima, Jose; Kalbermatter, Rebeca B.; Braun, João; Brito, Thadeu; Berger, Guido; Costa, Paulo (2022). A realistic simulation environment as a teaching aid in educational robotics. In 19th Latin American Robotics Symposium, 14th Brazilian Symposium on Robotics and 13th Workshop on Robotics in Education, LARS-SBR-WRE. Virtual, Online. p. 430 - 435