TY - GEN
T1 - Design and development of a flexible control laboratory plant for educational purposes
AU - Lara, Vanessa
AU - Vargas, Hector
AU - Castro, Cristian
AU - Chacon, Jesus
AU - Torre, Luis De La
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/7/2
Y1 - 2018/7/2
N2 - Theory and practice in control education come together into hands-on laboratories. Control laboratories are commonly composed by a set of didactical plants (typically plants of liquid level control in tanks, temperature control, speed and position control in motors, among others) on which students perform the practical experiences required by the teaching staff. However, given that these plants usually have a fixed structure (normally first or second order models), the creation of control learning activities for different type and order plants are not possible. In this context, this paper presents a flexible educational plant which has been designed as a set of electronic modules based on operational amplifiers which can be combined to create different transfer functions (or plants) and perform PID control on it. This plant is accompanied by a data acquisition system that allows sending and receiving signals to and from the modules and visualizing the results through a graphical user interface developed in LabVIEW. The application also includes an additional tool to compare simulated and real responses for analysis and validation purposes of the designed controllers.
AB - Theory and practice in control education come together into hands-on laboratories. Control laboratories are commonly composed by a set of didactical plants (typically plants of liquid level control in tanks, temperature control, speed and position control in motors, among others) on which students perform the practical experiences required by the teaching staff. However, given that these plants usually have a fixed structure (normally first or second order models), the creation of control learning activities for different type and order plants are not possible. In this context, this paper presents a flexible educational plant which has been designed as a set of electronic modules based on operational amplifiers which can be combined to create different transfer functions (or plants) and perform PID control on it. This plant is accompanied by a data acquisition system that allows sending and receiving signals to and from the modules and visualizing the results through a graphical user interface developed in LabVIEW. The application also includes an additional tool to compare simulated and real responses for analysis and validation purposes of the designed controllers.
KW - Control Education
KW - Didactical Plants
KW - Operational Amplifiers
KW - PID Control
KW - Transfer Function
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U2 - 10.1109/ICA-ACCA.2018.8609731
DO - 10.1109/ICA-ACCA.2018.8609731
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85062169985
T3 - IEEE ICA-ACCA 2018 - IEEE International Conference on Automation/23rd Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control: Towards an Industry 4.0 - Proceedings
BT - IEEE ICA-ACCA 2018 - IEEE International Conference on Automation/23rd Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control
A2 - Duran-Faundez, Cristian
A2 - Lefranc, Gaston
A2 - Fernandez-Fernandez, Mario
A2 - Munoz, Carlos
A2 - Rubio, Ernesto
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - IEEE International Conference on Automation/23rd Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control: Towards an Industry 4.0, ICA-ACCA 2018
Y2 - 17 October 2018 through 19 October 2018
ER -