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Many student robot competitions have been established during the last decade. One of them, and the most popular in Europe, is the European competition EUROBOT. The basic aim of this competition is to promote the robotics among young people, mostly students and high school pupils. The additional outcome of the competition is the development of faculty curriculums that are based on this competition. Such curriculum has been developed at the Faculty of Technical Science in Novi Sad. The curriculum duration is two semesters. During the first semester the theoretical basis is presented to the students. During the second semester the students, divided into teams of three to five students, develop the robots which will take part in the incoming EUROBOT competition. Since the time for the robot development is short, the basic electronic kit is provided for the students. The basic parts of the kit are two DC motor drives dedicated to the robot locomotion. The drives will also be used in the research concerning the multi segment robot foot. This paper presents the DC motor drive and its features. The experimental results concerning speed and position regulations and also the current limiting is presented too.
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Krklješ, D., Babković, K., Nagy, L., Borovac, B., Nikolić, M. (2010). DC Motor Drive for Small Autonomous Robots with Educational and Research Purpose. In: Gottscheber, A., Obdržálek, D., Schmidt, C. (eds) Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2009. EUROBOT 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 82. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16370-8_7
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