UNIFYING CONTROL DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION IN AN UNDERGRADUATE CONTROL SYSTEMS LABORATORY Conference Paper

abstract

• This paper discusses the development and evolution of an undergraduate teaching laboratory for control systems in the Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Initially, the laboratory was developed using disparate software packages for design, analysis and real-time implementation. In the second semester of teaching the course, LabVIEW from National Instruments was utilized for all pre-laboratory homework as well as for the laboratory experiments. The student feedback for the course improved significantly between the first and second semesters of teaching the course. This improvement is shown to be strongly related to the introduction of a unified, hands-on approach using LabVIEW. Copyright 2006 IFAC.

authors

• Gildin, Eduardo

published proceedings

• IFAC-PapersOnLine

author list (cited authors)

• Bishop, R. H., Lin, N., Gildin, E., & Falcon, J. S.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Bishop, Robert H||Lin, Nicholas||Gildin, Eduardo||Falcon, Jeanne Sullivan

publication date

• December 2006

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• IFAC-PapersOnLine  Journal

keywords

• 40 Engineering
• 4008 Electrical Engineering
• 4010 Engineering Practice And Education

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3182/20060621-3-es-2905.00040

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9783902661074

start page

• 224

end page

• 228

volume

• 39

issue

• 6

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.3182%2F20060621-3-es-2905.00040