An Educational Website on Kinematics of Robots

Abstract

This paper describes the current work of designing a website for learning robotics. It supports the post graduate and senior undergraduate students. It is a drive to cater the requirement of laboratory learning. Both theory and virtual experimental resources are made available. The experiments are in the form of simulation. At this stage of web development, the concepts of mechanisms and kinematics have been focussed. The experiment result is shown through web images and text. The website provides ample amount of resource material on the theoretical background of mechanisms and robot kinematics. A step by step fashion has been adopted to impart knowledge in the preliminaries of the subject and gradually guides the client to get a grip over the fundamentals as well as application of kinematics in this domain. Numerical computation along with simulation provides detailed illustration of a concept. The web page integrates MATLAB generated images for clear understanding. The simulation experiments give a real-time feel. This enhances learning, promotes visualization of the problem computation and hence, interpretation of results. Accomplishing this project brings benefit in the form of minimization of cost, time, labor, number of experts. A larger number of students can avail the laboratory and learn on their own pace as the website can be accessed through the internet from any geographical location at any time.