Robot control designer education on the Web

Abstract

The general goal of this work is to illustrate the learning potentialities of e-learning in the robotics field. In order to communicate the knowledge that can be learnt in a Mobile Robotics Laboratory and delivered through the Web we made references to a telelaboratory. The knowledge domain is autonomous vehicle control and the adopted solutions allow the development of the following experiments: environment mapping, path planning, trajectory following, Navigation Guidance and Control (NGC), obstacle detection and obstacle avoidance. The learning design is aimed at educating robot control designers and promoting learning by doing and active learning, through telepresence and developing tools able to supply telelaboratory immersivity on the Web.