The MATLAB Toolbox for the Intelitek Scorbot (MTIS): an open source educational robotics development library

We present a MATLAB toolbox that interfaces directly with the Intelitek Scorbot – one of the most widely used educational articulated robots. The toolbox provides a userfriendly, open source method of accessing the robot’s functionality from within MATLAB’s powerful integrated development environment, which already includes numerical solvers, image processing routines, neural network libraries, and control system design tools. We describe the development process and the toolbox’s features; and illustrate its capabilities with some projects from our own Introductory Robotics class where it was beta tested. A student opinion survey indicated that the toolbox was well received, but suggests its stability could be improved.