Advances in Control Education: Selected Papers from the Ifac Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, Usa, 24-25 June 1991

by Kheir, Naim A.; Franklin, Gene F.; Rabins, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9780080409580
• ISBN10: 008040958X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-03-01
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd

Summary

This volume is the published proceedings of selected papers from the IFAC Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, 24-25 June 1991, where a forum was provided for the discussion of the latest advances and techniques in the education of control and systems engineers. Emerging technologies in this field, neural networks, fuzzy logic and symbolic computation are incorporated in the papers. Containing 35 papers, these proceedings provide a valuable reference source for anyone lecturing in this area, with many practical applications included.

Table of Contents

An Industrial Challenge to Control System Educators	p. 1
A Response from Academia	p. 7
Curriculum Issues in Control Education
Control Systems Curricula in the United States: Results of Two Recent Surveys	p. 13
An Educational Environment for the Teaching of Quantitative Feedback Theory	p. 17
Sensitivity Function Methods in Control System Education	p. 23
A Practical Approach to the Teaching of Manufacturing Systems	p. 29
Software for Control System Simulation
Comprehensive Teachware for Automatic Control	p. 35
Computer Simulation and Animation Environment for Control Education	p. 41
Discrete Time Simulation and Experiments with FPU and Block-Sim on IBM PC'S	p. 47
Software for Control System Analysis
The Role of Interactive Graphic Tools in Teaching Control Theory	p. 53
A Set of MATLAB Routines for Control System Analysis and Design	p. 59
Programs for Teaching Nonlinear Control in MATLAB	p. 65
DISP--A Program Package for Digital Control System Education	p. 71
MSIMRP--A Program Package for Design and Simulation of MIMO-systems in Undergraduate Courses	p. 75
A Hardware-Software Approach to the Teaching of Classical Automatic Control Theory	p. 79
VISDYCON: VISual DYnamics and CONtrol	p. 85
Hardware Experiments in Control--I
The University of Illinois Bicycle Project	p. 91
Control Structural Interaction Testbed: A Model for University Industry Interaction	p. 97
Microprocessor-based Control Systems: A First Step in Teaching Mechatronics	p. 103
Identification of MIMO Plant as One-afternoon Laboratory Exercise	p. 109
Open Architecture Direct Drive Manipulator Research and Development Package	p. 115
The Wedge--A Controller Design Experiment	p. 123
Hardware Experiments in Control--II
An Experiment to Demonstrate the Bandwidth Requirements of a Nonlinear Controller	p. 129
A New Inverted Pendulum Apparatus for Education	p. 133
An Undergraduate Process Control Laboratory	p. 139
An Instructional Robotics and Machine Vision Laboratory Station	p. 145
Senior Control Systems Laboratory at Purdue University	p. 151
A PC-Based Real-time Digital Control Laboratory	p. 157
Software for Control System Design
Computer-aided Control System Design Environment	p. 163
Knowledge-based Interfaces to a Computer-aided Control System Design Package	p. 169
Computer Integrated Instruction for/with a CACSD-Tool	p. 175
Control Implementation: Real Time Multitasking/Multiprocessing	p. 181
A Package for Laboratory Experiments in Discrete Time Control	p. 189
Panel Discussion (Afterword): State of Control Education Today/Future Needs	p. 195
Appendix: Reflections on the 1991 Advances in Control Education	p. 197
Author Index	p. 199
Keyword Index	p. 201
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