Design of an Experiential Virtual Robotics Practical Teaching Platform

Cultivating high-quality technical talents with innovative spirit and engineering capabilities is an urgent issue to be explored in the reform of robotics curriculum training models in colleges and universities. Most existing robotics practical teaching platforms rely on expensive physical hardware or involve overly complex technology, posing limitations to their replication and promotion. This paper proposes two virtual robotics practical teaching platform architectures, applicable to robot practical simulations using MCUs and PLCs as controllers, respectively; using a 6-DOF articulated robot as an example, this paper also introduces the construction methods and experimental content of the two experiential robotics practical teaching platforms. The proposed fully virtual robotics teaching platform achieves the simulated integration of control systems and mechanical systems, meeting the practical teaching requirements for both robot operation and development.