Analysis and synthesis in the simulink environment of control laws for DC motors: a real-time implementation with the microcontroller BASIC stamp II as a simple tool for an education control laboratory

Abstract

This paper describes a simple and cheap experimental apparatus that has been developed at Università di Roma Tor Vergata for educational purposes; this tool is currently used in the course "Laboratorio d'Automatica" (Laboratory of Automatic Control), which is offered in the first year of a three-year university programme ("Laurea" degree) in Automatic Control. The most notable feature of this experimental apparatus is that it can be controlled in real time from Simulink; the paper reports on several experimental tests for students using this tool who are only familiar with the fundamentals of calculus, geometry, physics and computer sciences