LEGO Web laboratory at University of Kragujevac

Abstract

This paper describes laboratory infrastructure for LEGO robotics mechanisms controlled via Internet protocol in real time. Description of Web laboratory, existing robotics mechanisms that are in use in Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, and educational potential of laboratory regardless of the prior programming knowledge are given in this work. Web laboratory is of an open structure, which means that users can realize controllers with an arbitrary structure on the available robotics mechanisms with LEGO sensors and actuators in Python programming language. There is catalogue of digital controller examples solved in Python programming language on the web pages of the WEB Laboratory, as well as subroutines for use of LEGO sensors and actuators via Python programming language. Enhancing LEGO sets by the means of 3D printing is also described in this work. Laboratory software is written with MEAN stack and Python programming language.