An Interactive and Comprehensive Software Tool to Promote Active Learning in the Loop Shaping Control System Design

Díaz, José Quintanal; Costa‐Castelló, Ramon; Muñoz, Rocío; Dormido, Sebastián

doi:10.1109/access.2017.2712520

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“…This kind of interactive tools have demonstrated in the past that students learn in a much more active way. A very nice example is The Linear Control System Design (LCSD) (Diaz et al, 2017) Tool. It is an interactive tool for analysis and design of linear control systems with special emphasis on the open-loop shaping design.…”

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The use of interactivity in the controller design: Loop shaping versus closed-loop shaping

2018

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Frequency domain is one of the most popular and powerful framework to design control system. Usually this procedure is done using the open-loop transfer function. In this work, it is explored the possibility to perform the controller design by closed-loop shaping. It is analyzed how graphical representation and interactivity can be used in this framework to help automatic control students during the learning process.

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The use of interactivity in the controller design: Loop shaping versus closed-loop shaping

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“…For example, time-response plots, pole-zero map, root locus, and frequency domain diagrams (e.g., Bode, Nyquist, and Nichols). Unfortunately, students frequently struggle to interpret the control information these diagrams depict and to link it with theory [2] correctly.…”

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“…Although several Interactive Learning Tools (ILT) have been proposed to boost students' understanding on these topics [2]- [15], their real effectiveness has not been validated in most cases. This problem has been pointed out by several authors [16]- [22], who claim that decision making on pedagogical interventions to enhance the students' academic performance should be supported by empirical evidence.…”

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“…The paper reports the application of the proposed methodology for evaluating an interactive simulation tool called Linear Control System Design (LCSD) [2], [3], which has been specifically designed for teaching the fundamentals of control engineering. LCSD is free 1 and is distributed as lightweight portable binaries for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS (not requiring the installation of additional software).…”

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Evidence-Based Control Engineering Education: Evaluating the LCSD Simulation Tool

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The advance in control engineering education needs well-designed studies that validate what methods and tools work best. This paper addresses the lack of empirical evidence supporting innovations in control engineering education by proposing a methodology that works at different abstraction levels. Hence, innovations' impact on students' performance can be statistically analyzed either globally or locally by examining competencies or fine-grained indicators, respectively. The article reports the application of the methodology for evaluating an interactive simulation tool, named LCSD, on 101 students at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso in Chile. According to the experimental results, LCSD is an effective free alternative to enhance the student's skills on control system analysis for our automatic control course. Also, some improvements have been identified for future LCSD versions.

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“…The improvements introduced are numerous. Some examples are interactive applications [3], [4], virtual laboratories [5], and remote laboratories [6]. Despite this, practical on-site experiences continue to be a fundamental element for any engineering study and in particular for control engineering [2].…”

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Duino-Based Learning (DBL) in Control Engineering Courses

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2019 24th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)

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This document presents a project to develop freely redistributable materials to conduct educational lab projects with MATLAB, Simulink, Arduino and low-cost plants. This work materials introduce the fundamentals of Control Engineering through exercises and videos. Along with all this, the most important steps and issues appeared in the project are explained, so anyone interested on doing a project can have a starting point instead of starting a project from scratch, which most of times this results hard to implement.

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An Interactive and Comprehensive Software Tool to Promote Active Learning in the Loop Shaping Control System Design

Cited by 19 publications

References 25 publications

The use of interactivity in the controller design: Loop shaping versus closed-loop shaping

The use of interactivity in the controller design: Loop shaping versus closed-loop shaping

Evidence-Based Control Engineering Education: Evaluating the LCSD Simulation Tool

Duino-Based Learning (DBL) in Control Engineering Courses

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