Abstract
In previous works, an educational platform based on Matlab/Simulink/Lego EV3 has been developed that allows interacting in real time with the robot. However, this platform is limited to the capacity of Simulink to adapt to different robotic devices, limiting its use to LEGO and Arduino or Rasberry Pi robots.
In this paper we present a generalization of this platform to any type of robot, based on Matlab/ROS/Robot.
Robot Operating System (ROS) is a robotic middleware, that is, a collection of frameworks for software development of robots [4]. Despite not being an operating system, ROS provides standard services such as hardware abstraction, control of low-level devices, etc.
MATLAB® support for ROS is a library of functions that allows you to exchange data with ROS-enabled physical robots.
Matlab/ROS/Robot interaction is tested in a generic robot with Arduino Mega and Raspberry Pi 3, demonstrating the viability of the presented educational robotic platform.
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Rosillo, N., Montés, N., Alves, J.P., Ferreira, N.M.F. (2020). A Generalized Matlab/ROS/Robotic Platform Framework for Teaching Robotics. In: Merdan, M., Lepuschitz, W., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1023. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26945-6_15
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