Authors:
Iván Santana Ching
1
;
Luis Hernández Santana
1
;
Manuel Ferre
2
;
Rafael Aracil
2
and
George Eisendrath
3
Affiliations:
1
Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, Cuba
;
2
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
;
3
Free Universty of Brussels, Belgium
Keyword(s):
Distance Learning, Control Education, Remote Laboratories, Learning Management Systems.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer-Supported Education
;
Domain Applications and Case Studies
;
e-Learning
;
e-Learning in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and Information Engineering
;
e-Learning Success Cases
;
Virtual Labs: Examples, Architecture and Organization
Abstract:
During last decade, the Internet has been increasingly used for education and research purposes. As traditional face to face classroom became virtual classroom through Internet, traditional hands-on laboratories converted as remote and virtual laboratories that are at a technological crossroad. At previous papers was presented a Distance System Laboratory (DSL), developed for the purpose of teaching automatic control systems. The system consists of three parts, the user interface, the practices management and the practice processing. The developed DSL system allows users (i) learning and adjusting predefined controllers, (ii) designing new controllers, and (iii) testing and analyzing the performance of the predefined/designed controllers over a set of physical devices. Some technological update was made to DLS, than increase the performance and security of the system. In this paper is described an application of DLS through one case study practices of design of servo system in state
space in the Control System discipline.
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