A Creative Educational Program for Department of Mechanical Engineering Using Bipedal Walking Robot

Abstract

A creative educational program for department of mechanical engineering using bipedal walking robot is introduced. For educating in the mechanical engineering, we focused on kinematics and dynamics about the robot. The educational program was tested for university freshmen for a great number of people of 100 scales. They were divided into 10 groups with 10 peoples. A bipedal walking robot “e-nuvo WALK ver. 3” and software for the robot was given for each group. Robotic floor exercise in two minutes after one minute presentation was given for each group as a challenge. Guidance of the robot, group work and competition were lectured in 6 weeks. In this paper, tools, equipment, preparation and execution of the educational program are introduced in detail.