Demonstration of the use of robotics in the development of a scrap processing model for mechatronic education

Abstract

The role of demonstration of functional principles to students in education is very important, especially for engineering specialities. The usage of already known situations for students, as example environmental problems is a word vide challenge, and it could be used for education purposes. The technology development process has another side, as example a few year-old electronic product lives became suddenly short. This brings to an explosion and rapid acceleration in producing e-waste and solid waste. Waste and problems that they bring such as environmental and ecological problems are currently very well recognised among young generation, and they are familiar with that challenge from school. The education and awareness among people about the consequences of their actions is a basis for the arising creativeness, and to motivate students to involve themselves for the equipment designer's position. The career development path in the area of equipment design is basis for the entrepreneurship skills development, and it a good beginning for the motivation of students. The utilisation of e-waste is a good solution to brake psychological barrier, that students can do something wrong, as the creativeness well be based on low cost solutions. Education of new generations in order to change their behaviour regarding mechatronic scrap, is presented as a new approach of treating a mechatronic scrap. This is realized by building with students a few examples of autonomous mobile robots. This process of recycling was used to combine theoretical part with a practical one, in order to design and built robot from scrap. The Building Robots from scrap is in same time a starting point on how we can reuse mechatronic scrap, and how we can start from individual level to contribute in reduction of scrap.