Basso M and Innocenti G
Comput. Appl. Eng. Educ. 23 947–58 (2015)
Abstract: LEGO© Mindstorms is a widely spread affordable education robotic platform, that has recentlygained native support from the Mathworks© simulation environment Simulink. The pros and cons of theintegrated Mindstorms/Simulink framework are actually illustrated through a complex model based controldesign project featuring a self-stabilized bicycle, that represents a proper example of the rapid prototypingcapability of the platform. The importance of such an integration is discussed taking into account the historyand the results of the LEGO-based learning activities held at the Control Systems Laboratory of the University ofFlorence for graduate and undergraduate courses.
Link to the published paper: DOI 10.1002/cae.21666