MATLAB meets LEGO Midnstorms

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MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms - First Semester Student Laboratory	Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision, RWTH Aachen University

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http://www.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/mindstorms

The RWTH Aachen University student project - MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms - has been established since winter 2007 as a required course for Bachelor of Science students of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Technical Computer Science. In this project the students learn how to use MATLAB for digital signal processing. Based on known mathematical basics the students perform signal measurements and analyse the characteristics of the different LEGO Mindstorms NXT actors and sensors in the first half of the project. In the second half they are motivated to develop and program their own robots. As the pictures below illustrates a first impression, the individual and creative ideas of the students for their robots e.g. maze solver, morse en- and decoder and scanner robots, are unlimited. In winter 2008 over 380 students and 80 supervisors participated in this project and developed and programmed 200 robots based on the RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox for MATLAB.

For more information please visit the project page  http://www.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/mindstorms or contact the organisators at the  Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision - http://www.lfb.rwth-aachen.de.

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