Remote pursuer-evader experiments with mobile robots in the Automatic Control Telelab

The use of remote labs for teaching control systems and robotics is gaining increasing attention in the control community. One of the key advantages of remote labs is the possibility to easily include new real experiments within the existing setup and share them with students through the Internet. In this paper, a new feature of the mobile robot setup embedded in the Automatic Control Telelab is presented. A pursuer-evader setting has been developed, involving two mobile robots based on the LEGO Mindstorms NXT Technology. Students can choose which role to play (pursuer or evader) and design the best control strategy to achieve the desired objective. Several experiments are reported to demonstrate the flexibility of the proposed environment.