Research on system level innovative practice in embedded laboratory education

Embedded System Curriculum at Tsinghua University is target at advanced undergraduate senior students in CS department. At the end of this course, an overall understanding about System is expected to be obtained by students who have gotten perfect software knowledge from software series curriculums and hardware knowledge from hardware series curriculums. Embedded System is unique for its close association with actual application, thus an effective laboratory education is of great importance for embedded system curriculum. In this paper, we are dedicated to reform existing experimental teaching models, methods and laboratory platform to improve system level innovation practice for CS undergraduate students. Firstly, we mainly analyzed the characteristics of embedded laboratory education and current generation students. Based on this analysis, some principles as well as a concept model that guiding the designing of embedded laboratory platform are proposed. And then we present the whole innovative embedded laboratory system in CS department of Tsinghua University. Supported by the system, some typical projects will be presented, include intelligent Greenhouse, Sunflower, intelligence handcart, intelligence spider and rotorcraft.