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AN INTERACTIVE TOOL FOR INTRODUCTORY NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS EDUCATION
S. Dormido* F. Gordillo** S. Dormido-Canto* J. Aracil**
* Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Educación a
Distancia. Avda. Senda del Rey, 7. Madrid-28040. Spain
E-mail: [sdormido,sebas]@dia.uned.es
** Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla. Camino de
los Descubrimientos s/n. Sevilla-41092. Spain
E-mail: [gordillo,aracil]@cartuja.us.es
In this paper a new interactive tool for control education is presented. With this tool, developed in SysQuake (Piguet, 2000), the student can easily assimilate some concepts of introductory courses in nonlinear control such as the behaviour of piecewise linear systems, stable and unstable limit cycles and the describing function method. Furthermore, the basis of more sophisticated fields such as bifurcation theory applied to control systems can also be acquired. Three application examples are included in order to show the possibilities of the tool.
Keywords: Control education, piecewise linear systems, describing function, limit cycles, bifurcations
Session slot T-Th-A05: Control Education I/Area code 6a : Control Education
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