A Motivational Lecture Using an Experimental Control System to Get Personal Experience and Its Effectiveness

The authors teach control engineering to the students in Mechanical Engineering Course, Osaka University. Although much effort has been devoted, the contents are not understood well. In particular, the essence of feedback control, i.e. the merits and the risks are not understood well. To ensure the understanding, this paper proposes to use an experimental control system to get personal experience in motivational lectures. The effectiveness of the proposed system and lecture is examined by a questionnaire survey.