A Semi-Physical Simulation Experiment System for Automatic Control Education
- DOI
- 10.2991/icetms.2013.120How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- automatic control; matlab; real-time workshop; experiential learning; experiment
- Abstract
Automatic control theory is an important professional course of the automation and correlation specialties. This course is not pure theoretical, but practical for its close relationship with practical industrial automation systems design and implementation. Experiment plays an irreplaceable role in the process of the whole course learning. Most of traditional experiments for automatic control theory are pure simulated process. Furthermore, the experiment items are mainly demonstrated or confirmatory. This sort of experiment can be considered as another kind of class exercise. Students cannot get knowledge and technical ability in this way. A hardware-in-the-loop simulation experiment system based on MATLAB/RTW (Real-Time Workspace) is introduced in this paper. The software is open sources based on MATLAB. The hardware includes a PCI multi-purpose data acquisition card and an experimental box including analog circuit. According to the experiences of more than 5 years application, this semi-physical system is effective to attract student’s interests. And through laboratory experiments education, understanding of the theory concept and practical ability are improved. An experiment teaching method based on experiential learning theory is also introduced.
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- © 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Zhong Liu AU - Shaoqiang Yuan PY - 2013/06 DA - 2013/06 TI - A Semi-Physical Simulation Experiment System for Automatic Control Education BT - Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Education Technology and Management Science (ICETMS 2013) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 436 EP - 439 SN - 1951-6851 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icetms.2013.120 DO - 10.2991/icetms.2013.120 ID - Liu2013/06 ER -