Simulator for REDi robot (somewhat crude but working).
Made in FPC/Lazarus.

Mainly done by students.

Download: REDI Simulator (executable for windows)  

Articles:

This simulator is able to replicate all the autonomous driving competition challenges of the PRO.

• [1] - Conference Paper - Design hints for efficient robotic vision - Lessons learned from a robotic platform

• [2] - Conference Paper - Autonomous driving simulator for educational purposes

• [3] - Journal Article - Simulator for teaching robotics, ROS and autonomous driving in a competitive mindset

• [4] - Journal Article - Design of an Embedded Multi-Camera Vision System - A Case Study in Mobile Robotics

List of M.Sc. dissertations with Conde or Major robots:

• Machine Learning Based Controller for the Robot used in Autonomous Driving Competition
  Student: Gonçalo Freitas Ferreira Martins (23-JUL-2021)

• Autonomous Driving Robotic System for Demonstrative Purposes
  Student: Elisabete dos Santos Fernandes (19-JUL-2013)

• Reengenharia de protótipo de condução autónoma
  Student: Rodolfo Almeida Marques (19-JUL-2013)

• Sistema de 'drive' de múltiplos motores brushless para utilização em robótica móvel
  Student: Rui Fernando de Sousa Marques ( 05-MAR-2013)

• Sistema de reconhecimento de objetos para demonstrador de condução robótica autónoma
  Student: João Nuno Ferreira Batista (11-JUL-2012)

• demonstrador de condução autónoma
  Student: José Júlio Areal Ferreira (20-FEV-2012)

• Atualização de demonstrador robótico para utilização do "ROS"
  Student: Nuno Miguel Baptista dos Santos (19-JUL-2013)
  https://hdl.handle.net/10216/67932

• Projeto e casos de estudo em robótica educativa envolvendo visão em tempo real
  Student: Valter Joaquim Ramos Costa  (24-JUL-2015)

• "Versa robot : robot móvel versátil para competição em provas de robótica"
  André Carvalhosa & Tiago Leite  - FEUP 2005/6
  https://hdl.handle.net/10216/60633

What is it?

Programming for children with puzzle-like parts

Executable in platforms such as PC or robots

Just scan your code to program a PC or Robot

The name "Tactode" comes from Tactile Coding, that is, tangible programming

Usable internally at FEUP: http://tactode.fe.up.pt

MsC Dissertations 

• Dissertation by Ângela Cardoso, MIEIC FEUP (Informatics Eng), 2019-02-19 - "Tangible language for educational programming of robots and other targets" -  https://hdl.handle.net/10216/119132 

• Dissertation by Márcia Alves, MIEEC FEUP 2018/19  (Electrical and Computer Eng) - "Robotic simulator for the Tactode tangible block programming system" -  https://hdl.handle.net/10216/123177  

• Dissertation by Daniel Silva MIEEC FEUP 2019/20 (Electrical and Computer Eng) - "Computer Vision System for Tactode Programming" - Link & Citation | PDF File |  _DOI_(res_gate)__

• MSc Dissertation by Daniel Silva MIEEC FEUP 2019/20 (Electrical and Computer Eng) - "Computer Vision System for Tactode Programming" - Link & Citation  | PDF File     

Scientific Publications

• A. Cardoso, A. Sousa, and H. Ferreira. Programming for young children using tangible tiles and camera-enabled handheld devices. In ICERI2018 Proceedings, 11th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, pages 6389–6394. IATED, 12-14 November, 2018 - https://library.iated.org/view/CARDOSO2018PRO  

• A. Cardoso, A. Sousa, and H. Ferreira. Easy robotics with camera devices and tangible tiles. In ICERI2018 Proceedings, 11th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, pages 6400–6406. IATED, 12-14 November, 2018 - https://library.iated.org/view/CARDOSO2018EAS  

  • • (see below the video!)

• Márcia Alves; Armando Sousa ; Ângela Cardoso;. Web Based Robotic Simulator for Tactode Tangible Block Programming System.  Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference - Advances in Robotics, Volume 1, Porto, Portugal, 20-22 November, 2019., VOLUME: 1092,  pp 490-501, PUBLISHED: 2019   https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-35990-4_40  :

Videos and presentations:

• • Presentation (PPT):  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lVqNgFQfqKfSvVZn1yH8xfQqNGDFEwst 

  • ICERI 2018 conference - Robot programming  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZGw0X3bAiWBq11J4K5XWKedfotSCn7VT/view?usp=sharing   or  https://youtu.be/2P-W5-ljwmM  

  • Generic Programming - https://youtu.be/Eu-eaTyTwb0  

  • LDSO course, presentation at conference  Talk-a-bit 2019: https://youtu.be/IkP-uGL-Jgc  

2D Tiles - DataSets and Trained Models

We are publishing an article about comparing methods for 2D object recognition.

The code is here:  https://github.com/daniqsilva25/tactode_recognition

The related Datasets of tiles (samples of Tactode "code") are here!

1. Tactode Datasets (includes templates, training and testing)

2. Tactode Trained Models (CNN models, etc) 

FEUPAutom is a SoftPLC with programming support for "Grafcet" (not far from IEC 61850) and ModBus Communications, optionally generating C code, optionally targetting Pololu 3-Pi robot.

This software was used in the classes of the "Systems and Automation" course at FEUP since 2006/7, maybe 3000 students used it for the course.

If you want pedagogic materials, email me, no problem!

Download latest binary for Windows:
      http://fe.up.pt/asousa/feupautom5.zip 

Open Source:
      https://github.com/asousa-feup/FEUPAutom