Practice of Control Education by Experiment using Robot

Authors
Shinichi Imai1, *, Hideto Matsui2
1
Technology and Information Sciences, Graduate school, Tokyo Gakugei University, Koganei-shi, Tokyo, Japan
2
KÒSEN National Institute Technology, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, Japan
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
Corresponding Author
Shinichi Imai
Received 1 June 2018, Accepted 12 November 2018, Available Online 1 December 2018.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2018.5.3.10How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Control education; robot; feedback control; practical education
Abstract
In this paper, while control engineering replete with mathematical content is difficult for a beginner to learn, it is a practical branch of learning where the control theories expressed by mathematical equations prove useful only after being put into practice. However, the current status of students’ interest and curiosity in this regard is not favorable based on the impression that by learning the mathematical content only it is not possible to comprehend its actual use in practice. Accordingly, this study proposes an educational method for control systems utilizing robots, with the purpose of developing tools for inculcating interest and curiosity in students on contents such as automatic control and proportional-integral-differential (PID) control. The usefulness of the developed tools is also verified.

Copyright
© 2018 The Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd..
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc/4.0/).