Web-Based Robotics Laboratory

In the education world, the number of web-based system is growing substantially in the past few years. Many web-based teaching tools has been developed to help students expand his knowledge. This paper presents a web-based laboratory to augment learning experiences in the field of robotics. The designed laboratory consists of a robotic arm with laser pointer, projection platform and web-based interface. The laboratory is used to learn about inverse kinematics and forward kinematics problems. Students enter the input parameters through web interface, server calculate output parameters and sent it to the robot. The web interface displays the movement result and turn on the laser pointer to the projection field. Preliminary testing concerning interface usability, access control mechanism and command queueing shows that the system working as expected.