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We present, in this paper, a mobile robot and a program to control it that can be used in robotics education, expecting that the idea evolves, in a visible future, into a more general research tool in the field of robotics. The information necessary for robotic students to design their own mobile robot is, availability of each component of the robot, how each module of the robot is constructed, how these modules are combined, how a sensor system is given, how a simulator for the robot is programmed, what environment is appropriate to test the simulators, and so on. Also, it might be better if a possibility is given for developing it in student’s home.
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Kasyanik, V., Potapchuk, S. (2014). A Low-Cost Mobile Robot for Education. In: Golovko, V., Imada, A. (eds) Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence. ICNNAI 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 440. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08201-1_17
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