Development of an Eclipse plug-in for using the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 in education

LEGO's new robot, the Mindstorms EV3, offers a range of new possibilities for education. Its most important innovation is building upon the Linux kernel for the programmable unit. LEGO has also open sourced the firmware, allowing an easy extension. Programming for a robot can give engineering s...

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Published in:IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference pp. 631 - 636
Main Authors: Rodriguez Perez, Simon, Fatoum, Ahmad, Abke, Jorg
Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.04.2016
Subjects:
C (programming language)
C-programming
Computer languages
Computer programs
Eclipse
Education
Electronics
Engineering education
EV3
LEGO Mind-storms
Mechatronics
Plug-In
Programming
Programming profession
Robots
Sensors
Service robots
ISSN:2165-9567
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Summary:LEGO's new robot, the Mindstorms EV3, offers a range of new possibilities for education. Its most important innovation is building upon the Linux kernel for the programmable unit. LEGO has also open sourced the firmware, allowing an easy extension. Programming for a robot can give engineering students much more practical experience with technical problems and improve the learning motivation. This was the reason to include the EV3 at the university's computer science course in the studies for Mechatronics, which utilises ANSI C as the programming language. As there was - until now - no possibility to program the robot in ANSI C, an Application Programming Interface, an Eclipse plug-in and an uploader were developed. Main criteria was an easy handling of these tools. In this paper the plug-in and its integration into the computer science course is presented.
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ISSN:2165-9567
DOI:10.1109/EDUCON.2016.7474616