Industrial Manipulators were becoming used more and more
at industries since the third industrial revolution. Actually, with the
fourth one, the paradigm is changing and the collaborative robots are
being accepted for the community. It means that smaller manipulators
with more functionalities have been used and installed. New approaches
have appeared to teach students according to the new robot’s capabilities.
The DOBOT robot is an example of that since it captivates the
student’s attention with an uncomplicated programming front-end, tools,
grippers and extremely useful for teaching STEM. This paper proposes
a dynamic based simulation environment that can be used to teach, test
and validate solutions to the DOBOT robot. By this way, the student
can try and validate, at their homework without the real robot, the
developed solutions and further test them at the laboratory with the
real robot. Currently, remote testing and validation without the use of a
real robot is an advantage. The comparison of the provided simulation
environment and the real robot is presented in the approach.
This work is financed by National Funds through the Portuguese
funding agency, FCT - Funda¸c˜ao para a Ciˆencia e a Tecnologia, within project
UIDB/50014/2020.
