MINDLAB, a Web-Accessible Laboratory for Adaptive e-Educational Robot Teleoperation

The paper deals with a web based remote access laboratory, called MindLab, for educational support, via eteaching and e-learning approaches, in practical robotic experiment to students of robotics and control theory courses. The hardware components are based on commercial easy to use, cheap and modular LegoMindstorms devices. The software part, in addiction to the framework required for web access to the hardware resources, is designed and implemented in order to allow the teacher to define particular didactic paths depending on each student’s skills and on the desired final abilities to be acquired. Exercises are proposed following a skill/competence level set, enabling higher levels access according to the results obtained. After a short description of the hardware setup, the software functionalities, mainly focusing on the exercise definition and presentation aspects, are illustrated, giving also an example of a standard exercise. Concluding remarks end the paper