An Ecosystem for E-Learning in Mechatronics: The CLEM Project

James, Anne; Chao, Kuo‐Ming; Li, Weidong; Matei, Adriana; Nanos, Antonios G.; Stan, Sergiu-Dan; Figliolini, Giorgio; Rea, Pierluigi; Bouzgarrou, Chedli B.; Bratanov, Daniel; Cooper, Joshua; Wenzel, Ansgar; Capelle, Jürgen van; Struckmeier, Kerstin

doi:10.1109/icebe.2013.10

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“…2 shows the vision of an active community sustaining a cloud-based e-learning infrastructure in mechatronics and also illustrates the concept of a private replica cloud, which may be required by individual training organizations. The development of the system was informed by a requirements survey [29]. …”

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Cloud E-learning for Mechatronics: CLEM

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James

Nanos

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Future Generation Computer Systems

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Cloud E-learning for Mechatronics: CLEM

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“…In another application, Arduino has been adopted as a competition platform by a undergraduate class in mechatronics at Santa Clara University in US [3]. In Europe, there is an E-learning project called CLEM (Cloud E-learning Program for Mechatronics), using Arduino as their remote hardware in laboratory [4]. In China, Arduino is also introduced to the competition [5], college students' practical teaching [6] and robot DIY course in High School [7].…”

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Arduino CommShell, An Interactive Tool for Mechatronic Classroom Teaching

Li¹,

Xiao²

2016

Advances in Computer Science Research

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Abstract-In this paper a CommShell for Arduino has been proposed and designed. CommShell is a shell program running on the Arduino platform, accepting interactive commands from its simulated serial communication port. With the help of Arduino CommShell, users can communicate with Arduino using pre-defined commands and implement mechatronic instrumentation and control tasks without writing and compiling codes. Arduino CommShell is initiated with the idea of easier in-class demonstration on mechatronic system control. However it is also very useful for beginning engineering students to learn the concepts of Mechatronic system or Arduino beginners to get familiar with Arduino. Arduino CommShell is designed as an open architecture which is composed by a command interpreter, a function library and a base set of Arduino API. The function library can be extended to make the shell accept more commands, or be customized to do jobs on designated areas. Experiments and examples have been conducted to verify its usefulness, easiness and extendibility.

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“…Because of its ease of use, and economic unit cost, it soon became very popular [3]. It also has gained a position in engineering education in universities, such as course projects [4], platform for robotics [5], practice teaching in mechatronics [6] and automation [7], E-learning [8], and competitions [9]. However these applications and researches were mainly focused on the replacement of controllers with cheap Arduino boards, which were not applicable to fresh-persons in college.…”

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Using Arduino to Introduce the Concepts of Mechatronics to College Fresh-Persons

Li²

2016

Advances in Computer Science Research

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Abstract-Mechatronics, as a complex discipline which covers the fields of mechanics, electronics, information, computer science and control, is sometimes very hard to be understood and accepted by fresh-persons , who have little knowledge or experiences on engineering. They may not choose mechatronics as their major just because they felt frustrated with so many new terminologies and worry the potential difficulties to acquire expertise on these fields. In order to attract more students to study mechatronics, we designed a program based on Arduino. Through this program we taught students basic concepts and ideas about mechatronics, demonstrated how easy it is to build a mechatronic product and the fun when they were doing so. The two-week program is composed by a series of lectures about Arduino, hands on training on how to use it, and finalized by a smart car project. This program has been lasted for two years and the enrollment ratio has improved greatly.

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An Ecosystem for E-Learning in Mechatronics: The CLEM Project

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Cloud E-learning for Mechatronics: CLEM

Cloud E-learning for Mechatronics: CLEM

Arduino CommShell, An Interactive Tool for Mechatronic Classroom Teaching

Using Arduino to Introduce the Concepts of Mechatronics to College Fresh-Persons

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