Tutorials: Free software undergraduate portable USB based control education platform

Abstract

In this workshop we propose a USB based control platform with a high speed USB communication interface using the Linux based free software Scilab/XCos/RTAI. The workshop consists of six hands on presentations on the use of the experimental platform for teaching the main automatic control concepts such as stability, model, transfer function, current loop, parameter tuning, proportional control action, integral control action and derivate control action.