Development of a web-based control experiment for a coupled tank apparatus

Author

Ramakrishnan, V. ; Zhuang, Y. ; Hu, S.Y. ; Chen, J.P. ; Ko, C.C. ; Chen, Ben M. ; Tan, K.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

Volume

6

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

4409

Abstract

This paper presents the implementation of a web-based laboratory experiment on a `coupled tank apparatus´, a MIMO system using the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) for communication. The web-based laboratory has been developed to serve undergraduate students in the Department of Electrical Engineering at The National University of Singapore. The control strategies adopted include: manual control, the use of PID controllers, a general state-space controller, as well as fuzzy controllers. The implementation uses video conferencing to provide fast and point-to-point visual feedback to the client, on the events in the laboratory and also allows users to control the zoom and viewing angle of the video. This web-based remote labs can be accessed at vlab.ee.nus.edu.sg/vlab/control/

Keywords

Internet; control engineering education; distance learning; fuzzy control; laboratories; teleconferencing; three-term control; MIMO system; National University of Singapore; PID controllers; Transmission Control Protocol; coupled tank apparatus; fuzzy control; state-space controller; undergraduate students; video conferencing; web-based control experiment; Communication system control; Control systems; Couplings; Fuzzy control; Human factors; Laboratories; MIMO; Protocols; Three-term control; Videoconference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, 2000. Proceedings of the 2000

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

0743-1619

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5519-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.2000.877056

Filename

877056