Development of low cost educational material for learning fundamentals of mechatronics

Asato, Kentaro; Asato, Kanto; Nagado, Tsutomu; Tamaki, Shiro

doi:10.1109/iciibms.2015.7439526

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“…In this study, we focused on the hardware side in terms of science and technology educational material; as regards the software side (neural network training), we are going to further develop results of our previous research [9]. The proposed Hall element displacement sensor offers more accurate measurement of levitated object's position due to using a neural network.…”

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“…In future, we are going to solve this problem by using a Kalman filter. In this study, we focused on the hardware side in terms of science and technology educational material; as regards the software side (neural network training), we are going to further develop results of our previous research [9].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this context, we have developed education materials in control engineering [5][6][7][8][9][10] for the purpose of continuous fostering of science-and technology-savvy personnel. We focused on control engineering for the following reasons.…”

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Development of Magnetic Levitation System for Science and Technology Education: Magnetic Levitation Control by Using a Hall Element Displacement Sensor with Neural Network

Asato

Teruya

Nagado

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Electrical Engineering Japan

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In this study, we developed a magnetic levitation system using a Hall element displacement sensor with neural network for science and technology education. The sensor configured with three Hall elements was devised in order to measure displacement from an electromagnet to a levitated object with a permanent magnet. Use of the Hall element displacement sensor achieves a lower cost magnetic levitation system. Furthermore, three-layered feedforward neural network was utilized in order to improve the precision of the Hall element displacement sensor. Finally, operation verification of the developed magnetic levitation system was conducted by designing state feedback regulator with observer. C⃝ 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 200(2): 51-60, 2017; Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com).

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Development of Magnetic Levitation System for Science and Technology Education: Magnetic Levitation Control by Using a Hall Element Displacement Sensor with Neural Network

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Teruya

Nagado

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Electrical Engineering Japan

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“…), professors do not recommend any specific device to students as an 'official technology'. It should be noted that this policy is rare for this type of lectures; in most of lectures found in literature, professors often take a particular architecture and prepare a ready-to-use hardware kit, such as Arduino [47][48][49][50][51], Arduino + FPGA [52,53], Arduino + DSP [54], Raspberry Pi [55,56], and BeagleBone Black [57]. Only one lecture has asked students to choose the processor architecture [58].…”

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15‐year educational experience on autonomous electronic information devices by flipped classroom and try‐by‐yourself methods

Mita

Kawahara

2017

IET Circuits, Devices & Systems

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Since 2001, the departments of Electrical and Electronics and Information and Communication Electronics Engineering of Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) have jointly given a lecture on autonomous electronic information devices for undergraduate students. According to the on-line questionnaire, 80% of students in 2010-2012 replied that the lecture was useful for their future career. The task given to students was to design and realise an autonomous electronic information devices (so-called 'the IoT-gadgets') by themselves, and conduct a live demonstration in front of their colleagues. The device must have an 'input', 'output', and some 'information processing'. Being aware of the speed of technology evolution as well as the short hours of the lecture, the professor tried not to give direct answers to students' questions on how-to instantly build and program an information device. Instead, the students were told to beware of their 'methods'. This refers to the deductive thinking introduced by René Descartes, and in the lecture's context how students should behave in order to realise the device. In this study, the backgrounds of various associated topics are discussed, such as the UTokyo's educational system, the world's rapid prototyping movement, open hardware, course design, students' reactions, and future directions.

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“…Other mechatronics equipment including quadrotors [49], robot fish [50], and mobile wheeled robots [51] have been developed using Arduino. It is being used as a teaching tool at the undergraduate level in mechatronics laboratories [52] and for developing low-cost educational material [53,54].…”

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3-D printable open source dual axis gimbal system for optoelectronic measurements

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Simple 3-D printable open source hardware designs have proven to be effective scientific instruments at low costs. Further development in this area is coupling open source electronics with 3-D printable mechanical components to make fully functional distributedly-manufactured mechatronic tools for science. One research area where such low-cost technology is needed is to characterize thin film anti-reflective coatings and transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) for the glass, mirror and solar photovoltaic industry whose transmission properties are angle dependent. To meet this research need a low-cost 3-D printable open source dual axis gimbal system is presented in this study. An Arduino based microcontroller is used to move the sample holder to the user specified angle where two stepper motors control the motion providing two degrees of freedom. The sample holder is made in such a way that samples can easily be mounted on it by two movable latches. The system was validated and characterized for: i) unidirectional accuracy,

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Development of low cost educational material for learning fundamentals of mechatronics

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Development of Magnetic Levitation System for Science and Technology Education: Magnetic Levitation Control by Using a Hall Element Displacement Sensor with Neural Network

Development of Magnetic Levitation System for Science and Technology Education: Magnetic Levitation Control by Using a Hall Element Displacement Sensor with Neural Network

15‐year educational experience on autonomous electronic information devices by flipped classroom and try‐by‐yourself methods

3-D printable open source dual axis gimbal system for optoelectronic measurements

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