15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
A SIMULATION AND ANIMATION TOOL FOR STUDYING MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL
Magnus Andersson, Svante Gunnarsson1, Torkel Glad,
Mikael Norrlöf
Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University,
SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
A simulation and animation tool for education in multivariable control is presented. The purpose of the tool is to support studies of various aspects of multivariable dynamical systems and design of multivariable feedback control systems. Different ways to use this kind of tool in education are also presented and discussed.
Keywords: Education, Multivariable control, Simulation
1Corresponding Author: Tel: +46-13-282704, Fax: +46-13-282622
E-mail: svante@isy.liu.se
Session slot T-Th-A05: Control Education I/Area code 6a : Control Education