A Matlab Toolbox for the USB Intellitek Scorbot

Abstract

We present a MATLAB toolbox that interfaces directly with the Intelitek Scorbotone of the most widely used educational articulated robots. The toolbox provides a userfriendly, open source method of accessing the robot's functionality from within MATLAB's powerful integrated development environment, which already includes numerical solvers, image processing routines, neural network libraries, and control system design tools. We describe the development process and the toolbox's features; and illustrate its capabilities with some projects from our own Introductory Robotics class where it was beta tested. A student opinion survey indicated that the toolbox was well received, but suggests its stability could be improved.

Localization of mobile robot using visual system

“…For both Bluetooth sending and receiving information from the robot, there is a thirdparty toolbox created for iRobot Create control. 12 As it was mentioned before, movement of robot is split into rotation and translation; therefore, these two components are tested separately.…”

A Simulator for Teaching Robotics Programming Using the iRobot Create

“…At $280 per robot including a Bluetooth module, it is much cheaper than research-grade robots, yet is commercial quality. It can be programmed by transmitting serial commands using Open Interface, and libraries have been developed for various languages to interface with it (Blank, et al 2004;Dodds 2007;Esposito, et al 2008). Our first computing course uses Python.…”

“…Any system that would like to control the simulator simply needs to open a on the correct port and send opcodes. It is thus Python-independent, and requires only small modifications to work other libraries such as MTIC, the MATLAB toolbox for the Create developed by Esposito, et al (2008). Due to its implementation in C# using DirectX, the simulator only runs on Windows-based PCs.…”

The ScorBot Toolbox for MATLAB: An Open-Source Hardware Interaction and Simulation Library for the Intelitek SCORBOT-ER 4u Educational Robot

“…In 2011, Esposito et al presented the "MATLAB Toolbox for the Intelitek Scorbot (MTIS)" [2] which provides basic interaction between a 32-bit version of MATLAB running on a Windows Operating System (OS) and the Intelitek SCORBOT-ER 4u. The motivation and inspiration for MTIS were driven by: (1) a desire to increase hands-on exercises shown to particularly benefit visual and experiential learners [3]; (2) the popularity of Intelitek SCORBOT manipulators in education during the 1990s and early 2000s; and (3) a desire to follow a then-recent trend of providing free, open-source software for robotic education and research.…”

“…As described by [2], MTIS successfully provides a MATLAB front-end for interacting with the USB version of the SCORBOT-ER 4u. MTIS's functionality is based on a United States Naval Academy (USNA) developed "MTIS Intermediary DLL" allowing MATLAB to interact with an "Intelitek Name Mangled DLL."…”