REPORT

2016 summer semester Flying Robot Project 1st April 06, 2016

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Flying Robot Project for the 2016 summer semester has started. We staff members have been continuing our project with new TAs. The first day was an introduction session and we met over 30 students including not only junior students from Hongo campus, but also sophomore students from Komaba campus. We explained the project overview and schedule, and the new TAs shared their past experiences of developing their own aircraft two years ago. One of the TAs, Mr. Koike, told the students what activities they could engage in under this curriculum. Another TA, Mr. Sakaguchi, showed a video of an aircraft design contest called the “All Japan Students’ Indoor Flying Robot Contest.” Their videos and stories amused the students and helped them imagine the activities that they will experience in this class.

After that, Prof. Tsuchiya who is the professor in charge of this project, gave a lecture of a basic aeronautics. He took care to give simple explanations that could be easily understood by the new students, most of whom haven’t had much experience with aircraft. Professor Tsuchiya said that understanding technical terms of aeronautics could help their team activities. He also stressed that they didn’t need to memorize everything now, rather that the real world experience of building aircraft from this course would solidify the concepts.

Finally, we moved from the classroom to our workshop and showed previously constructed aircraft to the students. They saw and touched the real aircraft that their predecessors had made. Looking at the real world products was not only entertaining, but also helped give the students ideas for their own original aircraft.

This semester, many of the students come from the aerospace department, but many others have not yet declared a major. We are hopeful that they will enthusiastically participate in the activities in this class.


Juri Kimura
3rd-year PhD Student
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
今年度の飛行ロボットプロジェクトも始まりました．年度が改まり，新しいスタッフを加えての開始となります．初回であるこの日にはガイダンスを行い，30名を超える学生が参加しました．本郷だけでなく，駒場からも10人以上の生徒が参加したのは驚きです．
ガイダンスでは，このプロジェクトの概要，全体のスケジュール，夏に行われる全日本学生室内飛行ロボットコンテストの説明が行われました．続いて，今年度のTAである小池より，これまでのプロジェクトの概要が説明されました．同じく新TAの阪口は自作のムービーを使って，コンテストの出場経験を説明しました．新しいスタッフチームのらしさが出た授業になったと思います．

その後，土屋先生による航空工学の基礎の講義が行われました．まだ工学部に所属していない駒場からの生徒に対しても，分かりやすい言葉で説明することを意識されていたようです．航空に所属していない生徒にとっては，特に，専門用語の意味や使い方を身につけることが重要になります．

講義が終わった後は工作室のある13号館に移動して，機体見学を行いました．ここでは，これまでのコンテスト出場機体を展示してあります．この日は普段は天井に吊ってある機体を何機か机の上に並べ，受講生にも実際に触ってもらいました．座学の講義だけでなく，実際の機体や製作場所を見ることで，受講生にも活動のイメージがついてもらえると良いと思います．

夏学期は比較して受講生が多いですが，今年は駒場生も多いです．これまでとはまた一つ違ったチーム活動が行われることに期待しています．


航空宇宙工学専攻
博士課程3年
木村 壽里

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