a Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bridgeport, 169 University Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06601, USA
b Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Abstract:
This paper presents an affordable and comprehensive robotic model of critical aid to any engineering school involved in teaching robotics. We present the stages of designing a three-link robot manipulator prototype that was built as part of a research project for establishing a prototyping environment for robot manipulators. Building this robot helped to determine the required subsystems and interfaces for building the prototyping environment, and provided hands-on experience for real problems and difficulties that are addressed and solved using this environment. The robot is now successfully used as an educational tool in robotics and control classes.