Abstract
The paper presents the course on nonlinear control systems created in cooperation of the Institute of Control and Industrial Informatics of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava with the Institute PRT/MI, Fernuniversitat in Hagen. The differences in real experiments utilization in the course considering distance and regular education are discussed.
Highlights
For long decades, in education of the theory of automatic control, simulations represented the only type of activities enabling learning by experimenting
The control algorithms are designed and implemented by the Matlab/Simulink software package with Real-Time Workshop and xPC Target Toolbox. These tools are able to automatically generate stand-alone real-time applications from Simulink models that run on the so-called Target PC, while their development is carried out on separate host computer (Host PC)
For the tele-operation of the lab we designed xPC Target Server (Fig. 2). It performs a basic control of the Target PC, downloads a real-time application to the real-time target and controls its execution
Summary
In education of the theory of automatic control, simulations represented the only type of activities enabling learning by experimenting. There is a strong difference between the theory and modeling based simulations and real time experimenting in practice - at least from that point that the students have to be able to deal with the practical problems in the relevant authentic environment as well. The control algorithms are designed and implemented by the Matlab/Simulink software package with Real-Time Workshop and xPC Target Toolbox These tools are able to automatically generate stand-alone real-time applications from Simulink models that run on the so-called Target PC, while their development is carried out on separate host computer (Host PC). For the tele-operation of the lab we designed xPC Target Server (Fig. 2) It performs a basic control of the Target PC (restart, opening/closing of the communication port), downloads a real-time application to the real-time target and controls its execution. The main requirement on the clients side can be reduces to standard Web-browser without additional software
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