Abstract
This paper investigates graduation researches applying the national college robot contest whose rules become complicated gradually. First, an analysis of our students participating in the contest indicates that they are almost beginners, and some instruction methods for such beginners are presented. Second, the planning and the making process of a robot for the national college robot contest in 2003 are introduced, and a graduation research on the robot employing a bogie suspension system is illustrated. Finally, two improvement examples of engineering experiment in the electronic mechanical engineering department, which are fed back information gotten through the instruction of the graduation research, are introduced.
