A TECHNICAL SOLUTION OF A ROBOTIC E-LEARNING SYSTEM IN THE SYROTEK PROJECT

Abstract

SyRoTek (a system for a robotic e-learning) is a robotic virtual laboratory being developed at Czech Technical University in Prague. SyRoTek provides access to real mobile robots placed in an arena with dynamically reconfigurable obstacles enabling variety of tasks in the field of mobile robotics and artificial intelligence. The robots are equipped with several sensors allowing students to realize how robots’ perception works and how to deal with uncertainties of the real world. An insight to a technical solution of the SyRoTek project is presented in this paper. Detailed description of the newly developed educational robotic platform, motivated by identified requirements of SyRoTek, is presented together with a description of the arena and its functionalites. An overview of user access to SyRoTek, particularly how the robot is controlled and how sensory data are read is presented as well.