RACT: a Remote Lab for Robotics Experiments

Abstract

The “Robotics & Automatic Control Telelab” (RACT) is a remote laboratory on robotics developed at University of Siena, which extends the field of application of the “Automatic Control Telelab” (ACT). This extension consists of adding experiments on a remote robot manipulator. RACT is mainly intended for educational use, and its Matlab-based architecture allows students to easily put in practice their theoretical knowledge on robotics. The first implementation of RACT consists of a remote experiment on inverse kinematics and of an experiment on visual servoing. Experiments on visual servoing represent the most advanced feature of the remote lab and work is in progress to add more experiments of this type.