Practice of micro intelligent robot system development education on the premise of implementation experiment and efforts to develop next-generation systems

Since 1988, the Department of Electronic Control System Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Numazu College has conducted development of Micro Intelligent Robot System “ MIRS ”as a Project-Based Learning (PBL) into the curriculum for the education of system development. The purpose of this project is to provide a place to learn ”the process of system development,” ”education as creative education,” and ”social implementation experiments” through robot development. This paper reports on the MIRS development and education program undertaken from FY2017 to FY2023, reviews past efforts based on man-hour analysis, and discusses issues for the next generation. As a result, it was effective to set social implementation experiments as an achievement goal for the robot to be developed. However, it also became clear that it is necessary to plan lessons and provide guidance so that students do not develop devices with only social implementation in mind.