The automatic control telelab

Author

Casini, Marco ; Prattichizzo, Domenico ; Vicino, Antonio

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell´´Informazione, Siena Univ., Italy

Volume

24

Issue

3

fYear

2004

fDate

6/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

44

Abstract

A remote laboratory for automatic control is presented. The main aim of this laboratory is to allow students to easily interact with a set of physical processes through the Internet. The student can run experiments, change control parameters, and analyze the results remotely. The automatic control telelab (ACT) allows the user to choose a predefined controller or synthesize a new controller through the Matlab/Simulink environment, and to test it on actual plant through a user friendly interface. An additional feature of ACT is its architecture, allowing for an easy integration of processes for control experiments.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; control engineering education; distance learning; educational courses; student experiments; telecontrol; user interfaces; Internet; Matlab; Simulink; University of Siena; Web interface; automatic control telelab; controller design; distance learning; remote laboratory; remote operation; remote process control; software architecture; user interface; Automatic control; Circuit testing; Computer aided instruction; Control systems; Internet; MATLAB; Robots; Telecommunication control; Temperature control; Torque control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Control Systems, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1066-033X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCS.2004.1299531

Filename

1299531