Control Laboratory Course Research Articles

Thermoacoustics and the Rijke Tube: Experiments, Identification, and Modeling

The Rijke tube [1] is a classic experiment that is relatively simple and inexpensive to build in a typical university laboratory. Despite its construction simplicity, it can serve to illustrate a wide variety of mathematical modeling, empirical identification, verification, and feedback control techniques. As such, it is suitable for use in both advanced undergraduate and graduate control laboratory courses.

A Laboratory Course in Real-Time Software for the Control of Dynamic Systems

This paper describes a laboratory course in real-time software for dynamic systems control. In the first part of the course, real-time concepts employed by modern real-time operating systems are taught with laboratory assignments. In the second part, students are required to write real-time software for dynamic systems control using the concepts that they learned in the first part. Real-time programming is usually avoided in teaching a feedback control laboratory course, since it has generally been considered difficult. However, student evaluation results for this course show that real-time programming can be successfully included in a feedback control laboratory course. From this course, students are able to obtain working knowledge of both real-time concepts and real-time programming for dynamic systems control.

A MATLAB-BASED COURSE ON REAL-TIME INTELLIGENT CONTROLLERS FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

In this paper, we describe a control laboratory course as a teaching aid during the training of undergraduate chemical engineering students. This approach facilities the understanding of the subject matter (Application of Artificial Intelligent (AI) in process control) introducing a first-hand experience at implementing intelligent control. Students execute a series of laboratory exercises, for a variety of processes, implementing fuzzy control and Neural Networks.

NEW LABORATORY COURSE FOR CONTROL EDUCATION

This paper presents new control laboratory course designed at the Faculty of Applied Informatics for the undergraduate courses in Automatic control. Experience obtained during the building process of Control Laboratory and the organization of student assignments for laboratory course is described. The objectives of the laboratory course are to integrate the fundamental skills from theoretical courses to solve engineering problems in dynamics and control and to encourage the problem-based learning.

An Undergraduate Laboratory Course in Real-Time Dynamic Control

This work describes a real-time control laboratory course for undergraduate students. To introduce the concept of real-time control with real-time programming in a feedback-control laboratory course, a commercial software tool for a real-time operating system is adopted. Instead of using convenient graphical programming and automatic code generation methods, students in this course are required to write programs using C language to control and monitor analog dynamic simulators and experimental plants. Through step-by-step procedures, students are able to acquire the knowledge necessary for writing real-time programs to control dynamic systems.

Emphasizing Interdisciplinary of Control in Laboratory Courses: Illustration with the Inverted Pendulum

The importance of control laboratory courses is widely recognized as a crucial part of control education. This paper addresses the role of interdisciplinarity (meaning the different aspects of control) in laboratory courses for undergraduate students. Explanations and ideas are given based on the example of the inverted pendulum. Different aspects of control are studied throughout this paper : it is first stressed that constraints carried by engineering and industrial environment may have a significant impact when modelling a system. Then, the control structures used in this course are presented. After running the simulation of the system, qualitative results are described. Finally, some remarks are given to conclude the paper.

A laboratory course on fuzzy control

In this paper we describe a new control laboratory course at The Ohio State University. Students execute a series of laboratory exercises, for a variety of processes, implementing fuzzy control, adaptive fuzzy control, and other intelligent control techniques, with a particular focus on fuzzy control. Fully instrumented independent testbeds in the laboratory emphasize several sensing and actuation technologies. Both senior undergraduates and graduate students take the course and several have used the experience, coupled with research that they have conducted with our industrial sponsors, to obtain positions in industry working on intelligent control.

An Intelligent Control Laboratory Course

This paper describes a unique control laboratory course at The Ohio State University which focuses on implementation of intelligent control algorithms for a variety of processes. Students execute a series of laboratory exercises implementing fuzzy control, adaptive fuzzy control, and other intelligent control techniques. Fully instrumented, independent tesbeds in the laboratory emphasize several sensing and actuation technologies.

Digital control laboratory courses

A description is given of two Stanford University courses of one-quarter (10 weeks) each, covering the material of digital control of dynamic systems, by the authors. The courses have neither homework nor exams but are based on laboratories using IBM PC computers with locally designed and constructed analog plants. Rather formal reports are also required covering the seven laboratories in the two courses. The first course (4-unit credit) has labs on digital filters, control design by transform methods, control design by state-space methods, and quantization effects, The second course (three units) has labs on identification, Kalman filters, and optimal design. The courses are taught by faculty from the Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Aeronautics and Astronautics Departments and satisfy degree requirements in each of these departments; the students are mainly first-year graduate students with a few undergraduates. >

A Digital Control Laboratory with Microprocessors

A microprocessor-based digital control laboratory course has been developed at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The microprocessor acts as a controller in a closed loop system. The plant has been simulated on an analog computer. Some experiments have been realized with the aim of improving the student's understanding of the digital control concepts.

A Microprocessor-Based Digital Control Course

A microprocessor-based digital control laboratory course has been developed at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The microprocessor controller interfaces directly to an analog computer. The introduction of the microprocessor in a closed-loop system allows great flexibility in the types of algorithms that can be used in stand-alone controllers. Some experiments have been carried out with the aim of improving the student's understanding of the digital control concepts. A brief description of the algorithms, with main emphasis on their discrete realization, and details of each laboratory experiments are given. The philosophy underlying the course is the active participation of the students.