Temperature Control Lab (TCL)

The temperature control lab is an application of feedback control with an Arduino, an LED, two heaters, and two temperature sensors. The heater power output is adjusted to maintain a desired...

Experience Controls App

The Experience Controls app is a unique interactive mobile textbook introducing students to control systems fundamentals in an engaging way, through accessible language, real-time dynamic...

ITCLI: An Interactive Tool for Closed-Loop Identification

The Interactive Tool for Closed-Loop Identification (ITCLI) is an interactive software tool for understanding SISO closed-loop identification using prediction-error techniques. The tool...

Kalman Filter Virtual Lab

The Kalman Filter virtual laboratory contains interactive exercises that let you study linear and extended Kalman filter design for state estimation of a simple pendulum system. The virtual...

Interactive Tool for PID understanding

The module PID Basics is designed to explore the properties of a simple feedback loop by showing the time and frequency responses of a closed-loop system and demonstrating how these...

Kalman Filter Simulink 2022A example

This model is intended to help illustrate how a Kalman filter can estimate the state of a system. The "real system" is a nonlinear model of the Temperature Control Lab by Prof. John...

Interactive Tools for Control Purposes

This resource provides different links to Interactive Tools that can be used for control education. Interactive Tools are very powerful educational resources as support to learning and...

i-pIDtune: An interactive tool for integrated system identification and PID ...

i-pIDtune is an interactive software tool that integrates system identification and PID controller design. The tool supports experimental design and execution under plant-friendly conditions...

ITCRI: An Interactive Software Tool for Control-Relevant Identification

The Interactive Tool for Control Relevant Identification (ITCRI) comprehensively captures the control-relevant identification process, from input design to closed-loop control, depicting...

The Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control MATLAB Apps

The Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control offers 5 Matlab Apps on the topics of the Nyquist Criterion, Robustness and Stability, Loopshaping, Controllability and Observability...

Matlab Radar Designer App

The Radar Designer app is an interactive tool that assists engineers and system analysts with high-level design and assessment of radar systems at the early stage of radar development. Using...

ITSIE: An Interactive Software Tool for System Identification Education

ITSIE is an Interactive Tool for System Identification Education. The tool is developed using Sysquake, a Matlab-like language with fast execution and excellent facilities for interactive...

Various games for learning Controller Design

Since 2005, we are using educational games in the course „Einführung in die Regelungstechnik“ (Introduction to automatic control). 

The project started with the game spaceballRT, which uses...

Virtual Labs for control education

This resource provides different links to virtual and remote labs that can be used for control education. Virtual and remote labs are very powerful tools for learning and teaching, that...

Virtual Lab for a Two-tanks system

This is a virtual lab for a two-tank system that can be used for modelling and control learing/teaching purposes. Open-loop tests and closed-loop simulatons based on PI control or PI plus...

Android and iPhone E-Learning App for Nyquist Stability Criterion

In our Nyquist App, you can analyze the stability of the closed loop by using the Nyquist stability criterion. With the Nyquist stability criterion, you can determine the stability of the...

Toys for Control Education

Teaching materials for control engineering education that run in web browsers. Speed control, position control, step response of 2nd order system, pole and impulse response, and rocket.

T-RECS System

The Transportable Rotorcraft Electronic Control System (T-RECS) is a collection of components that can be built into a rotorcraft demonstrator.  This hardware can be used as a test bed to...

Interactive Tool about control signal saturation (windup) with PID control

The purpose of this module is to give a familiarity with the phenomenon of integral windup and a method for avoiding it. The module shows process outputs and control signals for unlimited...

Autodesk Tinkercad

Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use web app that equips the next generation of designers and engineers with the foundational skills for innovation: 3D design, electronics, and coding!

Interactive Tool for Loop Shaping understanding based on PID control

Loop shaping is a design method where it is attempted to choose a controller such that the loop transfer function obtains the desired shape. In this module the loop transfer function is...

First Order Plus Dead Time Tuning App for PI Controllers

The FOPTD_PI Tool is a Matlab-Interactive tuning tool of PI controllers for First Order PlusTime Delay processes. It can be used to teach basic control concepts based on a set of PI tuning...

Discrete-Time Fourier Transform MATLAB App

This is the app that Brian Douglas created for his MATLAB Tech Talk video on the Z-transform.

Educational Tool for Teaching GRAFCET

e-GRAFCET is a tool for supporting the teaching-learning process of GRAFCET ( which can be implemented using the programming language Sequential Function Chart – SFC). While this tool was...

Quanser QUBE-Servo 2: Low-cost Teaching Platform for Controls

The Quanser QUBE-Servo 2 is a fully integrated, modular servomotor lab experiment designed for teaching mechatronics and control concepts at the undergraduate level. Ideal for teaching speed...