Teaching Service Robotics with ROS and Unibotics Web Framework in Higher Education
摘要
Unibotics is an open web framework for robot programming and teaching robotics in Higher Education. It is based on ROS and supports both Gazebo simulated robots and real ones. This paper describes the latest improvements on Unibotics regarding Service Robotics. Firstly, a new exercise has been developed from scratch regarding the navigation of a robot inside a warehouse for moving goods. Two logistics robot models have been designed to mimic real Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), and three reference solutions have been developed using the Open Motion Planning Library. They take into account the corresponding robot geometry and Ackermann dynamics constraints. Secondly, Unibotics has been successfully used in two different European universities and the teaching experiences are reported.