Espresso macchiato, por favore: collaborative robotic coffee-making for education
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https://doi.org/10.17979/ja-cea.2025.46.12274Keywords:
Collaborative robotics, Educational robotics, Graphical interfaces, Human-robot interfacesAbstract
We present a practical exercise involving the ABB “GoFa” CRB 15000-5 collaborative robotic arm: a coffee-making station for a domestic-like conventional coffee pod machine with capsules. It is aimed at providing an intuitive and hands-on use case to be adopted in practice sessions with students, framed within undergraduate or graduate studies. We hope to enrich those sessions by showcasing some mechanisms the ABB programming ecosystem provides in terms of developing custom graphical interfaces. We explore the newly introduced (Jan’25) AppStudio software for graphical applications, along with the well-established OmniCore SDK framework. A pair of new applications are introduced in this work, showcasing both tools through experiments in the RobotStudio simulator and on a real setup.
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Copyright (c) 2025 Bartek Łukawski, Miquel Martín Cervera, Carmen Menchén Pascual, Edwin Daniel Oña, Juan G. Victores, Alberto Jardón
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