PiBot: An Open Low-Cost Robotic Platform with Camera for STEM Education

@article{Vega2018PiBotAO,
  title={PiBot: An Open Low-Cost Robotic Platform with Camera for STEM Education},
  author={Julio Vega and Jos{\'e} Mar{\'i}a Ca{\~n}as},
  journal={Electronics},
  year={2018}
}
This paper presents a robotic platform, PiBot, which was developed to improve the teaching of robotics with vision to secondary students. Its computational core is the Raspberry Pi 3 controller board, and the greatest novelty of this prototype is the support developed for the powerful camera mounted on board, the PiCamera. An open software infrastructure written in Python language was implemented so that the student may use this camera as the main sensor of the robotic platform. Furthermore… 
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