Robotics Virtual Laboratory Featuring Serial, Parallel, Wheeled Robots, and Autonomous Off-road Vehicles, and Covering Analysis, Control and Sensors
Danielle Sami Nasrallah, Georges H. Haddad, Angelo A. Chrabieh
Abstract
The presence of robots is growing rapidly throughout the world. The robotics education community should follow the trend and modernize the tools used accordingly. The authors introduce here a Robotic Virtual Laboratory that runs in real time and covers four categories of robots, namely serial manipulators, parallel manipulators, wheeled mobile robots, and autonomous off-road vehicles obtained as a combination of wheeled platform with serial manipulators. The topics covered start with motion analysis, then control design, and end up with sensors perception, thus rendering this lab an essential tool for robotics and control engineers as well as computer scientists. The use of (i) robot simulation platform, (ii) real-time simulation, and (iii) cosimulation framework represents a backbone for the success of this laboratory. The results of a survey of students who participated in this pilot project are shown.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{iros2025_roboticsvirtuall,
title = {Robotics Virtual Laboratory Featuring Serial, Parallel, Wheeled Robots, and Autonomous Off-road Vehicles, and Covering Analysis, Control and Sensors},
author = {Danielle Sami Nasrallah and Georges H. Haddad and Angelo A. Chrabieh},
booktitle = {IROS 2025},
year = {2025}
}