Experiments for the undergraduate control laboratory

Author

Chandrasekara, Chetan ; Davari, Asad

Author_Institution

M. S. Control Syst., West Virginia Univ. Tech, Morgantown, WV, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

2004

Firstpage

488

Lastpage

491

Abstract

An introductory control laboratory is presented. This paper describes our experiences in developing and teaching such a course to seniors in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at West Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVU Tech). The course, entitled "Automatic Control Laboratory," is organized around consideration of principles of control systems. The emphasis in the laboratory experiments is on plant identification, open loop and closed loop characteristics, effect of damping and design and implementation of PID control schemes. The topics introduced in the course ELCE 424 Automatic control such as introduction to control systems, time domain analysis, control system characteristics and performance of feedback control, complement the laboratory course.

Keywords

closed loop systems; computer aided instruction; control engineering education; damping; educational courses; feedback; identification; open loop systems; student experiments; three-term control; time-varying networks; Automatic Control Laboratory course; PID control schemes; West Virginia University Institute of Technology; closed loop characteristics; control system design; damping effect; feedback control; open loop characteristics; plant identification; time domain analysis; Actuators; Automatic control; Control systems; Education; Laboratories; Open loop systems; Operating systems; Real time systems; Servomechanisms; Three-term control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Theory, 2004. Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Southeastern Symposium on

ISSN

0094-2898

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8281-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSST.2004.1295705

Filename

1295705