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Since its foundation in 1991, University Jaume-I (UJI, hereinafter) in Spain, has been working on research and educational aspects of the robotics field. Thus, trying to improve the teaching-learning excellence in this context, a Telelaboratory [1] was designed for enabling students hands-on in different aspects of robotics. These experiments tried to cover a wide range of activities, such as robotic control using visual-servoing techniques [2, 3], and grasping determination algorithms.
For this first telelaboratory, an educational robot arm provided with calibrated cameras and sensors was made accessible to the students via Internet. They were able to teleoperate the robot using a simple Java3D applet and launch simple robotic tasks using a set of text commands. These commands were recorded into a file and used by the teacher to evaluate the skills of the student. The telelaboratory had the possibility of programming the robot using both, an off-line 3D simulation and a real robot. After that, we realized that the telelaboratory could be improved by offering the students the possibility to program their robotic tasks using a more advanced language like Java, C, or even Matlab. To do so, the telelaboratory network architecture was modified accordingly [2]. This second version of the telelaboratory was in fact very successful with undergraduate students, because they were able to program sophisticated control algorithms such us visual servoing manipulation. Moreover, this second version of the Telelaboratory enabled students to program multi-robot algorithms, in a concurrent manner. For that, a Java library was provided, which was used by the students to perform their laboratory sessions. This second version of the telelaboratory was very focused on the user interfaces, which provided a simple way to teleoperate and programming remotely a manipulator, providing facilities like grasping determination, augmented reality and speech recognition.
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Wirz, R., Marín, R., Sanz, P.J. (2009). Design and Educational Issues within the UJI Robotics Telelaboratory: A User Interface Approach. In: Tzafestas, S. (eds) Web-Based Control and Robotics Education. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2505-0_10
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