INTEGRATION OF COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN, ARDUINO AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING IN THE LEARNING PROCESS OF BASIC ROBOTICS IN MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Abstract

Technological advances and the irruption of Industry 4.0 imply that mechatronics engineers acquire the necessary graduation skills to adapt to a world of digital transformation and increasingly automated, potentially including those that help in design, manufacturing, monitoring and control of robots, through the acquisition and analysis of data. In the development of these skills, there are important tools that help the learning process of basic robotics, which include computer-aided design (CAD), Arduino and additive manufacturing through 3D printing, in addition to the importance of concepts. electronics, mechanics and programming. The objective of this research is to compile the terminal projects generated by mechatronics engineering students of the first semester of the State University of Sonora - Hermosillo Academic Unit, from an extracurricular practical workshop focused on basic robotics. The work methodology was based on the PBL (Project Based Learning). The results obtained were the creation of autonomous robots that overcome obstacles, robots that follow established trajectories (line followers) and remote-controlled robots, all of them used Arduino and were customized by CAD design and manufactured with 3D printing.