On Thursday, November 20th, the Faculty of Faculty of Science and Engineering team "SELENE" won the ET Robocon 2025 Championship Tournament (Physical Division, Advanced Class) held in Yokohama, becoming the best in Japan. This is a challenging class that requires advanced design and control technology, and the team attracted attention from the Kyushu Regional Preliminaries, and their results lived up to expectations.
ET Robocon is a nationwide competition aimed at educating and promoting embedded system technology, and is a high-level event attended by both university teams and corporate engineering teams. The competition, which involves competing in the design and control of running robots, is attracting attention from both industry and academia as a place to test practical development skills.
The Advanced Class in particular is the most challenging category, requiring not only complex driving courses, but also model-based development, advanced algorithm design, and optimization through AI-based machine learning. Participating teams are required to have precise driving control, strategic model design, and advanced tuning within a limited time frame. Competing against corporate teams is a major challenge for students, testing their overall technical and creative capabilities.
This time, "SELENE" overcame these high hurdles and achieved an overwhelming score, beating strong competitors including corporate teams to win the championship.
Kaito Kamata (Taisha High School), a fourth-year student in the Department of Information Science and a member of the Advanced Class, expressed his joy, saying, "We had been thoroughly preparing before the competition. We were able to win, which we weren't able to do last year, and I couldn't help but pump my fist in excitement. I was so happy!"
Professors Nao Sawada and Yoshihiro Yasutake of the Department of Information Science of Science and Faculty of Science and Engineering, who are instructing in the ET Robocon as part of KSU Project-based Education, said, "While the typical winning score for a competition is between 70 and 90 points, the best result of 103.1 points is a great achievement, as it shows that the hard work that has been accumulated by students over the years has been quantified and has paid off."
Our university will continue to support students in improving their technical skills and engaging in practical learning, working to cultivate the next generation of engineers.
[Department of Information Science]
