Academic mobility to Belgium

Within the framework of the EU Erasmus+ KA107 program, as well as within the framework of the inter-institutional agreement concluded between the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium) and the Zaporizhia Polytechnic National University, there are opportunities for academic mobility of higher education students and teachers.

From October 15 to December 13, Natalia Myronova, an associate professor at the Department of Information Technologies of Electronic Media, participated in the academic mobility program. The academic internship was conducted under the scientific supervision of Professor Peter Arras and Professor Wouter Sas (KU Leuven).

The purpose of the mobility was to work on the functionality and limitations of the Magician Go mobile platform. This educational robot is actively used in STEM projects, but its standard software has limited access to control settings. Therefore, it was necessary to develop a custom driver that provides direct control of the platform without using proprietary software. For this purpose, an analysis of available open materials was conducted and the data exchange protocol was reverse-engineered. The result was the Magician Go control software, which opens up new opportunities for educational and research projects.

The experience gained is already being integrated into the educational process during the teaching of the educational components “Robot Control Systems” and “Programming of Robotic Systems”, as well as the coordination of areas of joint scientific work between representatives of the Zaporizhia Polytechnic National University and KU Leuven.

Working together – developing together!