Development of a flexible educational platform based on a HIL system, focused on enriching the teaching-learning process of modern control engineering

Hamann F.; Martinez O.; Mesones G. · WMSCI 2020 - 24th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Proceedings (2020)

Resumen

The present work proposes a low-cost educational platform based on a hardware in the loop system that allows incorporating a novel complementary alternative in the design of observers and controllers, since it allows to display various operating scenarios without the cost and time associated with the conventional physical tests, both for the simulated plant, and for the real controller. It seeks to provide the student with a tool that reduces the theoretical-practical gap corresponding to the study and development of controllers designed for the dynamic model of a specific plant, aiming to reduce the time the student spends when executing a laboratory experience even in 35%, replacing the process of programming from scratch the controller designed in the microcontroller with the possibility of configuring it quickly and efficiently through the graphical interface of the platform, so that the time saved in the implementation of the controller in the hardware is used to design, evaluate and compare a greater number of controllers whose characteristics and design complexity are different, thus allowing the student to consolidate theoretical knowledge more quickly in a practical environment improving the teaching-learning process. To achieve the objective, a communication protocol was programmed in C and Matlab so that, through a graphical interface, the student can easily configure both the software and the hardware section, which consists of a microcontroller PIC24FJ1024GB610 running at 16 MIPS, which was programmed to receive the control system configuration and execute the HIL control loop. © WMSCI 2020 - 24th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Proceedings. All rights reserved.

Instituciones: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas