Stimulating Imagination and Creativity Through Small Aerospace Systems
- Paper number
IAC-08.E1.3.11
- Author
Dr. Kenji Ogimoto, SOUKI Systems Co. Ltd., Japan
- Coauthor
Mr. Shinichi Moriyama, TOIN High School, Japan
- Coauthor
Ms. Akiko Tsutsumi, Japan
- Year
2008
- Abstract
The author have been working on small aerospace vehicles, such as small experiment rockets, quasi-satellites, high-tech water rockets, small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), rovers and so on, for the purpose of stimulating young engineers in private companies and students in engineering universities. Although these systems are small and limited with their capabilities, yet they are one of the most effective tools to educate young system engineers and students in their first careers. These systems can be defined, manufactured, tested and evaluated in a short period of time. Thus young engineers & students can understand and acquire their experience on the process of a system development. This scheme started as a volunteer basis program in which the author organized the team to work on a small experiment rocket, when it was the International Space Year (ISY) in 1992. This paper summarizes the progress of this venture and discusses several possibilities in relation to Youth Education, College Course, Funs and Real Business. There are several different elements in this program. The program started with a small experiment rocket in 1992. Since then, it developed into small UAVs, high-tech water rockets and some rovers. They all had small computers & various sensors in their system. Thus the participants could work either on subsystems or systems. Recent efforts are focused on the development of small UAVs, which can be launched and recovered in mountain areas. This program started as an education tools and some companies may find the real application for this system. The author discusses the development.
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