The Education of Software Engineering for the Embedded System using Robot Contest

Abstract

The ET Robot Contest is an attempt of education of software engineering for embedded system using robot contest. In the ET Robot Contest, the results are evaluated by both the competition result of autonomous mobile robot and the poster of software design for the robot. The robot used in the contest is a one make made by Lego Mindstorms. The result of competition derives from the software design. Evaluation on its poster is fed back to the contest participants by posting good points and points to be improved along with the poster. Also, at the workshop after the competition, the judges have a comment on the overall trend and particularly good points about its poster. ET Robot Contest provides technical education to contest participants. The technical education deals with element technologies to robot control, UML modeling and so on.