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Use of Open-source Software in Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering Education – Part II : Controller Implementation

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This article is the second of two-part article series discussing the use of Open Source Software in Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering. View Part I in Volume 12 Issue 3

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1 Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Department, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, United States
2 Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
3 Mechanical Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, United States
4 Robotics Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, United States
5 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN, United States

Abstract

This paper is the second part of a two-part study on promoting the use of Open-Source Software (OSS) in Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (MRE) education.

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gruepr, a Software Tool for Optimally Partitioning Students onto Teams

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gruepr, a Software Tool for Optimally Partitioning Students onto Teams


1 Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

Abstract

Abstract—Choosing how to split a group of students into teams for project work can be a time-intensive task for an instructor. An instructor might have a complex set of parameters to optimize, perhaps desiring each team to have a certain number of times throughout the week where they can meet, while also seeking to create teams that are homogeneous in some characteristics and heterogeneous in other characteristics. Demographic composition may also be considered, and perhaps the instructor has certain students that must be placed on the same team or must be placed on different teams. Maybe teams will be formed several times, and no student should have the same teammate twice. A few software tools can be found in the literature to assist an instructor with this task, but few of them seem to be easily and freely accessible.

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