Applied informatics in automatic control education

Abstract

The computer control is one large area of applied informatics. Today's control systems are mostly based on the different types of computers and their communication in more level systems is also defined by the computer communications rules. Practical laboratory training is very important part of education process in the area of technical engineering. It is necessary to verified theoretical knowledge with the real technological processes - if it is possible, or at least on the real models of technological processes. At the Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Faculty of Applied Informatics there are in the range of study branch Automatic Control and Informatics several disciplines focused to the problematic of automatic control theory. Control theory is lectured from the fundamental principles to the modem approach to the computer control systems and methodology. For the laboratory training were built new models for the using of many different synthesis methods and many possibilities to solve computer and hardware configuration of the control system. From the microcomputers applications thorough the PLC to the special PC control systems. One from these models is time delay model. In this contribution are described experiences with the using of this model computer control in the education process.