Development of educational materials to re-learn control engineering by real experience

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K01051
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Maizuru National College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Kawata Masakatsu 舞鶴工業高等専門学校, 電子制御工学科, 教授 (90311042)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 制御工学教育 / メカトロニクス技術者育成 / LEGO MINDSTORMS / MATLAB/Simulink

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we developed an inexpensive crane/inverted pendulum as an educational material of control engineering. This educational material can be easily assembled using LEGO MINDSTORM, LEGO Power Functions XL motor, third party angle sensor and general parts. As software, we use MATLAB/Simulink which is standard in the control engineering field. Using this educational material, we propose educational contents which can effectively learn modeling, classical control and modern control, and we actually used them in class. We confirmed the learning effect by questionnaire to the students after class. Also, we published the educational contents on the web.

Free Research Field

制御工学