CONTINUING-EDUCATION FOR APPLYING CONTROL-THEORY TO AUTOMOBILES AT TOYOTA

Since 1990, the Toyota Motor Corporation has been conducting internal education programs on control technology for its engineers, using the MATLAB and inverted pendulum experimental devices. With three years of experience, some major complaints were voiced concerning these progra ms, such as ''not practical'', or ''not helpful to understand the basi c theory of control''. As countermeasures for these problems, SIMLINK has been introduced as a new tool for constructing models easily. ''On e-year Project'' has also been started which enables the participants to solve the problems they face in their daily work with the help of u niversity researchers and Toyota's experts.