Controlly: Open source platform for learning and teaching control systems

Ariza, Jonathan Álvarez

doi:10.1109/ccac.2015.7345194

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“…The overall appearances of the application and the educational materials are depicted in Figures 3 and 4, respectively. Detailed information about the application DSCBlocks can be found in the reference [44], and in the related study [45]. The e-learning tool Xerte [46] was employed as a tool for the construction of the educational materials that started with the concepts of the dsPIC architecture and finished with the features of the application DSCBlocks.…”

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“…Some main critical requirements in the project were the reduction of the power consumption in the different nodes created in Figure 2, and the robustness of the CAN-Bus protocol under different events such as voltage transients, malfunction, and inadequate usage or handling by the driver. For this, we selected a 16-bit architecture with the devices (dsPIC33FJ128GP802) [40] that have an Enhanced CAN peripheral (ECAN) module incorporated for CAN-Bus communication [40,63], which have been used in prior projects [15,45,64] with feasible and good results from the educational and technical standpoints. The dsPICs provide advantages such as easiness of programming, tools for compiling and debugging such as MPLABX IDE, XC16, and ICD3, Direct Memory Access (DMA) peripheral in order to transfer data of the ECAN directly to RAM, and a maximum processor speed of 40 Million of Instructions per Second (MIPS).…”

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Bringing Project-Based Learning into Renewable and Sustainable Energy Education: A Case Study on the Development of the Electric Vehicle EOLO

Ariza

Olatunde-Aiyedun

2023

Sustainability

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In recent years, there has been a growing interest in education for sustainable development (ESD). Although several national and international agencies, e.g., the UN or UNESCO, have promoted its deployment in higher education institutions, educators are still facing problems with how to articulate this type of education within the curriculum, allowing students to develop their technical and labor competencies, and soft skills as well. In this way, this study describes a methodology with Project-Based Learning in renewable and sustainable energies through the development of an electrical vehicle (EV) known as EOLO. This initiative arose from an industry-academia collaboration to develop the first Colombian EV with the support of solar and wind energy sources. Twelve engineering students participated in the development of the vehicle through a set of capstone projects over a year and a half with the support of two tutors (professors) and two engineers (technical staff) of the project. Additionally, two versions of EOLO with vertical and horizontal axis wind turbines were made with the cooperation of the students. The results evidence that the methodology helped to engage students, promoted meaningfully and situated learning through real-world problems in renewable energies, and fostered motivation and peer collaboration. Nonetheless, aspects such as the improvement of the communications channels, the revision of the complexity of the projects, the sense of community to achieve a common goal, or the tutoring and monitoring processes should be strengthened for further initiatives and/or active learning methodologies. In this sense, some challenges and recommendations that can help to develop methodologies that combine ESD and engineering are provided based on the experience in this study.

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Bringing Project-Based Learning into Renewable and Sustainable Energy Education: A Case Study on the Development of the Electric Vehicle EOLO

Ariza

Olatunde-Aiyedun

2023

Sustainability

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“…In [21], the author proposed an open-source platform called Controlly designed with Blockly for control systems education. The application has several blocks in order to implement classic controllers, such as Proportional (P), Proportional-Integral (PI), and Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID).…”

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DSCBlocks: An Open-Source Platform for Learning Embedded Systems Based on Algorithm Visualizations and Digital Signal Controllers

Ariza

2019

Electronics

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DSCBlocks is an open-source platform in hardware and software developed in JavaFX, which is focused on learning embedded systems through Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs). These devices are employed in industrial and educational sectors due to their robustness, number of peripherals, processing speed, scalability and versatility. The platform uses graphical blocks designed in Google’s tool Blockly that can be used to build different Algorithm Visualizations (AVs). Afterwards, the algorithms are converted in real-time to C language, according to the specifications of the compiler for the DSCs (XC16) and they can be downloaded in one of the two models of development board for the dsPIC 33FJ128GP804 and dsPIC 33FJ128MC802. The main aim of the platform is to provide a flexible environment, drawing on the educational advantages of the AVs with different aspects concerning the embedded systems, such as declaration of variables and functions, configuration of ports and peripherals, handling of Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), interrupts, among others, that are employed in several fields such as robotics, control, instrumentation, etc. In addition, some experiments that were designed in the platform are presented in the manuscript. The educational methodology and the assessment provided by the students (n = 30) suggest that the platform is suitable and reliable to learn concepts relating to embedded systems.

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Interactive Digital Resources for a Blended Learning Controls Course

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Barbosa

2016

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Controlly: Open source platform for learning and teaching control systems

Cited by 7 publications

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Bringing Project-Based Learning into Renewable and Sustainable Energy Education: A Case Study on the Development of the Electric Vehicle EOLO

Bringing Project-Based Learning into Renewable and Sustainable Energy Education: A Case Study on the Development of the Electric Vehicle EOLO

DSCBlocks: An Open-Source Platform for Learning Embedded Systems Based on Algorithm Visualizations and Digital Signal Controllers

Interactive Digital Resources for a Blended Learning Controls Course

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