TY - GEN
T1 - HoRoSim, a Holistic Robot Simulator: Arduino Code, Electronic Circuits and Physics
AU - Faina, Andres
PY - 2021/4/28
Y1 - 2021/4/28
N2 - Online teaching, which has been the only way to keep teaching during the pandemic, imposes severe restrictions on hand-on robotic courses. Robot simulators can help to reduce the impact, but most of them use high-level commands to control the robots. In this paper, a new holistic simulator, HoRoSim, is presented. The new simulator uses abstractions of electronic circuits, Arduino code and a robot simulator with a physics engine to simulate microcontroller-based robots. To the best of our knowledge, it is the only tool that simulates Arduino code and multi-body physics. In order to illustrate its possibilities, two use cases are analysed: a line-following robot, which was used by our students to finish their mandatory activities, and a PID controller testbed. Preliminary tests with master's students indicate that HoRoSim can help to increase student engagement during online courses.
AB - Online teaching, which has been the only way to keep teaching during the pandemic, imposes severe restrictions on hand-on robotic courses. Robot simulators can help to reduce the impact, but most of them use high-level commands to control the robots. In this paper, a new holistic simulator, HoRoSim, is presented. The new simulator uses abstractions of electronic circuits, Arduino code and a robot simulator with a physics engine to simulate microcontroller-based robots. To the best of our knowledge, it is the only tool that simulates Arduino code and multi-body physics. In order to illustrate its possibilities, two use cases are analysed: a line-following robot, which was used by our students to finish their mandatory activities, and a PID controller testbed. Preliminary tests with master's students indicate that HoRoSim can help to increase student engagement during online courses.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82544-7_24
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82544-7_24
M3 - Article in proceedings
SN - 978-3-030-82543-0
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
BT - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Robotics in Education
PB - Springer
T2 - 13th International Conference on Robotics in Education
Y2 - 27 April 2021 through 29 May 2021
ER -