Development of heavy equipment simulator on the subjects of agriculture and disaster prevention for block programming

Abstract

This study proposes the construction of an educational program for learning heavy equipment operation and programming in agriculture and disaster prevention using a heavy equipment simulator that can be controlled from a block programming environment. In the proposed method, we developed a heavy equipment simulator that can be controlled from the block programming language Scratch using the game engine Unity, and constructed a tutorial on heavy equipment operation related to agriculture and disaster recovery work. As a result of a hands-on experience using the developed system, participants enjoyed the programming and found the system more convenient and useful in times of disaster.