A Remote Laboratory as an Innovative Educational Tool for Practicing Control Engineering Concepts

作者：Ionescu Clara M^*; Fabregas Ernesto; Cristescu Stefana M; Dormido Sebastin; De Keyser Robin

来源：IEEE Transactions on Education, 2013, 56(4): 436-442.

DOI：10.1109/TE.2013.2249516

• Auto-tuners
• ball and plate
• control engineering
• education
• identification
• mobile robots
• proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control
• remote laboratory

This paper presents the development, structure, implementation, and some applications of a remote laboratory for teaching automatic control concepts to engineering students. There are two applications: formation control of mobile robots and a ball-plate system. In teaching control engineering, there are two main approaches to control design: model-based control and non-model-based control. Students are given insight into: 1) for model-based control: identification of real processes (i.e., dealing with noise, choosing the sampling time, observing nonlinear effects at startup, pairing input-output variables); and 2) for non-model-based control: the advantages and disadvantages of auto-tuning techniques. The paper concludes by presenting an evaluation of these remote labs and discussing the advantages of using them as complementary tools for teaching control engineering at the Bachelor%26apos;s and Master%26apos;s level.

• 出版日期2013-11