A Hands-on Laboratory for Introductory Automatic Control Courses

This paper presents a hands-on laboratory for introductory automatic control courses, which will be offered to the third or fourth year students of the department of electronic engineering in the Lunghwa University of Science and Technology. The aim of the hands-on laboratory is to help reinforce th...

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Published inIFAC Proceedings Volumes Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 9737 - 9742
Main Authors Lee, Chyi-Shyong, Su, Juing-Huei, Hsieh, Cheng-Chang, Lin, Kuo-En, Chang, Jia-Hao, Lin, Gu-Hong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 2008
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Summary:This paper presents a hands-on laboratory for introductory automatic control courses, which will be offered to the third or fourth year students of the department of electronic engineering in the Lunghwa University of Science and Technology. The aim of the hands-on laboratory is to help reinforce the learning process of the students in introductory automatic control courses from a practical point of view. Therefore, a low cost (~D 60) but versatile educational platform based on the dsPIC microcontroller is devised as a learning aid to implement practical control algorithms for motion control systems. A monitor and control software running on the PC side is also developed to collect experimental results from and send commands via universal serial bus (USB) to the platform. All the necessary softwares are given at no cost to the students during the class. In addition to the theoretical part of automatic control systems and microcontroller structures, the hands-on laboratory consists of four parts of exercises which are used to help students learn step by step the automatic control theory, how to implement control algorithms in a microcontroller, and the performance requirements of motion control systems.
ISSN:1474-6670
DOI:10.3182/20080706-5-KR-1001.01647