• DocumentCode
    2585715
  • Title

    Free open source software in control engineering education: A case study in the analysis and control design of a rotary inverted pendulum

  • Author

    Meza, Carlos ; Andrade-Romero, J. Alexis ; Bucher, Roberto ; Balemi, Silvano

  • Author_Institution
    Electron. Eng. Dept., Costa Rica Inst. of Technol., Cartago, Costa Rica
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    22-25 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    8
  • Abstract
    The present paper aims to show the advantages of using free and open source software for control systems in education. Accordingly, this paper presents a control assignment for an introductory control theory course that can be done entirely with FOSS. This assignment consists of the control of a rotary inverted pendulum.
  • Keywords
    control engineering education; control system synthesis; educational courses; nonlinear control systems; public domain software; control design; control engineering education; control theory course; free open source software; rotary inverted pendulum; Automatic control; Control design; Control engineering education; Control systems; Educational institutions; Mathematical model; Object oriented modeling; Open source software; Power system modeling; Software tools;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation, 2009. ETFA 2009. IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Mallorca
  • ISSN
    1946-0759
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2727-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1946-0759
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ETFA.2009.5347162
  • Filename
    5347162