Academic mobility to Belgium
Within the framework of the EU Erasmus+ KA107 program, as well as within the framework of the interinstitutional agreement concluded between the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium) and the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University, there are opportunities for academic mobility of higher education students and teachers.
From October 15 to December 13, Nataliia Mironova, 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 Petro Arras and Professor Wouter Sas (KU Leuven).
The goal of 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. To do this, 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 Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic University and KU Leuven.
Working together – developing together!
