Title :
A novel intelligent control laboratory for undergraduate students in engineering
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, the development of an interdisciplinary intelligent control laboratory is presented. The main objective of the laboratory is to substantially improve the instructional capability of undergraduate instructions in intelligent systems analysis and design. The project addresses simple, robust and effective implementations of soft computing techniques for several educational and industrial applications including: servo systems, heat trainers, inverse pendulums, twin rotor systems and visual component inspection stations. The development is carried out through the adaptation of innovative industrial design techniques, incorporation of real-time sensory interfacing and other applicable industrial advances, which have already been utilized in several manufacturing industries. The implementation of an undergraduate intelligent system laboratory can serve as a model for other institutions in the nation.
Keywords :
control engineering education; industrial control; intelligent control; laboratory techniques; servomechanisms; student experiments; education; heat trainers; industrial design techniques; innovation industrial design; intelligent control laboratory; intelligent systems; inverse pendulums; manufacturing industries; real time sensory interfacing; servo systems; soft computing techniques; twin rotor system; visual component inspection stations; Computer industry; Electrical equipment industry; Industrial training; Intelligent control; Intelligent systems; Laboratories; Manufacturing industries; Robustness; Servomechanisms; System analysis and design;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 2003. Proceedings of the 2003
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7896-2
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.2003.1239090