Laboratory Workstation and Experiments on Discretization, Identification and Computer Control

Abstract

The paper deals with the implementation of a basic workstation and the development of experiments for use in a Control Laboratory at educational institutions. The station consists of a digital computer, an A/D-D/A interface, some simulated or real processes and computer programs. The programs were written to interact with a well-known scientific computing environment, being the lab experiments referred to: Discretization of Continuous Systems, to obtain discrete dynamical equivalents tor continuous filters and compensators; Process Identification, to identify nonparametric and parametric models for dynamical processes; and Digital Control, to design, simulate and implement dynamical compensators, state-space and optimum controllers.