Projects

This web page shows LEGO Mindstorms NXT projects which are using the RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox for MATLAB. If you are using the toolbox in your own private or education project please feel free to send an email to mindstorms(at)lfb.rwth-aachen.de to have your project added to this site.

University and education
MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms: First Semster Student Laboratory The project which started it all...	RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Week 1 LEGO Exercise	University of Cambridge, UK
Freshman Engineering Robotics Project - Mindstorms Meets MATLAB -	College of Egineering and Science, Clemson University, USA
First Semester Project in Cybernetics	Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Introduction to Control Systems	University of Ottawa, Canada
Fundamentals of Engineering Design Course for Biomedical Engineers	New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Final Project in Scientific Computing Computer Science 121	Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, USA
Robotics with MATLAB and LEGO NXT	Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA
Project in Robotics 2: Multi-Agent Systems	Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
MATLAB Student Biomechanics Projects	Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
Projects in Automatic Control (FRT090)	Lund University, Sweden
Various project announcements for Mindstorms and MATLAB	University of Applied Sciences FH Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Student Workshop (Summer Term 2008)	RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Thesis, papers, and conferences
A Matlab-based Remote Lab for Multi-Robot Experiments	M. Casini, A. Garulli, A. Giannitrapani, A. Vicino, University of Siena, Italy
Minifabriken 2009: The LEGO Factory at Chalmers	M. Carlred, D. Chéramy, S. Danielsson, H. Ericsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Particle Filter - Monte Carlo Localization Algorithm	Ricardo Oliveira, IST University Portugal, Portugal
Path Following Robot	Ricardo Oliveira, IST University Portugal, Portugal
Final Project - Robotics: Algorithms and Control (ECE 452)	Rajat Mahajanu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
IP/BA-Thesis: MATLAB Evaluation Environment for LEGO Mindstorms	Melvin Isken, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
Tutorial: Weather forecasts on your NXT	Linus Atorf, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Zukunft Ingenieurwissenschaften - Zukunft Deutschland	Proceedings of the 4ING-Conference and the first plenary meeting of the 4ING-faculty, Springer
Final Year Project: Technical Lego Robot Entertainment Device	Christiane Ischebeck, Coventry University, United Kingdom
Personal robots
Sudoku Solving Robot	Vital van Reeven, The Netherlands
Boat Robot: Modelos, Control y Sistema de Visión	Omar Sánchez, Universidad de Huelva, Spain
Draw Robot	Klaufmann
MATLAB Bluetooth Router	Daniele Benedettelli, Italy
Other
Hybrid MotorControl Technology Documented and usable for other frameworks	Linus Atorf & the toolbox team
NXC Profiler A spin-off during toolbox development	Linus Atorf (Toolbox Developer Member), Germany

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Fundamentals of Engineering Design Course for Biomedical Engineers

A Biomedical Engineers Course for students at  NJIT - New Jersey's Science & Technology University.

• Three-hour semester long course that is offered in the Fall and Spring semesters.
• Labs consists of 60 students with 15 to 20 groups, teams of 3-4 people.
• Creative student projects are build to solve robotic surgery tasks with RWTH Mindstorms NXT Toolbox and the modeling software Pro-engineering.
  • e.g. vasectomy of a spaghetti noodle, shoulder transplant of a Barbie doll, Vascular bypass surgery of a strawberry, …
• Course teaching: Anish Parameswaran, Anika Khatri, Dr. Brunio Mantialla, and Dr. Judith Redling (Biomedical Engineering Department of NJIT)

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Computer Science 121 : Scientific Computing

Final Project

Engineering course  Scientific Computing from  Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia

The last two lab periods of the course (25 March, 01 April) will be devoted to individual final programming projects of your own choosing. The goal is to write one or more programs to solve an interesting problem in your field of study. Proposals for these projects will be due the previous week. If you decide not to do a final project, there will be a default project you can do instead, most likely a robotics project using the new RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox for MATLAB.

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