An Adaptive Intelligent Car Lab as a Proactive Learning Environment

摘要

With the continuous development of information and telecommunication technologies, intelligent control has been penetrating into every aspect of human's life. Automobile manufacturing is no exception. In particular, teaching laboratories that combine intelligent control with automobile manufacturing have recently attracted teachers' attention from various universities and colleges. The intelligent car lab presented in this paper is developed on top of a competition developed by Freescale, a semiconductor company, together with the Chinese Higher Education Automation Professional Education Committee in China. This competition is held in several Asian countries for the sake of cultivating students' practical abilities. The paper introduces the whole learning environment process, preparation made by teachers and students from Shanghai Maritime University, and the setup of a concept of adaptive intelligent car lab. We introduce the project components, technical developments achieved by the students and discuss the benefits of the whole experience. We show that throughout this proactive learning environment, students learnt a large amount of technological and design knowledge and enhanced their hands-on technical abilities, as well as learning new group-project capabilities, thus providing a solid foundation for their professional future.