Intelligent control workstation

The authors describe an intelligent control laboratory that can be used to teach undergraduate and graduate process control courses and to design intelligent control systems for real-time applications. A software library accessible by a workstation consists of several numerical simulation packages and expert systems, which cover a wide spectrum of process control knowledge. The `wet´ laboratory section features a prototype biochemical reactor with complete PID control systems interfaced with the microcomputers, which are located in the `dry´ section of the laboratory. Artificial intelligence techniques are implemented to control and manage the laboratory experiments and to serve as an intelligent teaching tool for chemical and biochemical engineering