Process models for a new control education laboratory

Abstract

Process models for a new self contained laboratory for training and education of control have been designed. Models are considered to be connected to the MATLAB through universal data acquisition instrument called CTRL. The latter was developed together with the models to enable realization of control experiments in a comfortable computer processing and visualization environment. The paper focuses on a short conceptual description of each model, together with the expected educational benefits. Furthermore, at the final part of the paper, the CTRL instrument is shortly presented.