An educational Java applet for linear systems

Author

Lundberg, Kent H. ; Williams, Brian F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

8-10 June 2005

Firstpage

5150

Abstract

We describe an educational Web applet for students studying linear systems and feedback control. The applet allows students to manipulate a pole-zero diagram and immediately see the corresponding changes that occur in the Bode plot, Nyquist diagram, Nichols chart, and step response. The program is written in Java, so that it runs in any Web browser, and it is free software, distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Keywords

Bode diagrams; Internet; Java; Nyquist diagrams; computer aided instruction; control engineering computing; control engineering education; feedback; linear systems; poles and zeros; public domain software; step response; Bode plot; Internet; Nichols chart; Nyquist diagram; computer aided instruction; control engineering computing; control engineering education; educational Java applet; educational Web applet; feedback control; free software; linear systems; pole-zero diagram; public domain software; Educational technology; Feedback control; Java; Licenses; Linear systems; Mice; Poles and zeros; Sun; Switches; Virtual machining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, 2005. Proceedings of the 2005

ISSN

0743-1619

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9098-9

Electronic_ISBN

0743-1619

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.2005.1470840

Filename

1470840