HoRoSim, a Holistic Robot Simulator: Arduino Code, Electronic Circuits and Physics
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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.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Robotics in Education |
Publisher | Springer |
Publication date | 28 Apr 2021 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-030-82543-0 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-030-82544-7 |
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Publication status | Published - 28 Apr 2021 |
Event | 13th International Conference on Robotics in Education - Duration: 27 Apr 2021 → 29 May 2021 |
Conference
Conference | 13th International Conference on Robotics in Education |
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Periode | 27/04/2021 → 29/05/2021 |
Series | Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing |
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Volume | 1359 |
ISSN | 2194-5357 |
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