Designing a real-time remote control system for undergraduate engineering and engineering technology students
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2016
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This paper explains the design of a control system intended to enhance the quality of education in engineering and engineering technology departments and considers the use of various concepts: remote-access, real-time, reconfigurable properties, and multi-user controls. Controlling the system's hardware is possible by using fuzzy logic and PID control methods to teach several engineering concepts in the field of automatic control (i.e., DC motor and temperature control). PID parameters and fuzzy logic membership rules can be modified by authorizing remote users. A Web interface was also designed as part of the system to create an opportunity for the end-users to observe real-time changes in DC motor and temperature control. Modifications to the control system's parameters also enable users to record output to their own personal computers via the Internet; this allows users from other engineering institutions to access and modify the PID and fuzzy logic membership rules for more experiences. In this way, various theoretical and practical concepts associated with the field of automatic control can be implemented without any limitations. The overall findings from this study indicate that engineering and engineering technology curricula in any institution can effectively be delivered using the Internet to overcome the limitations of distance, as remote-access experiments are becoming highly applicable anywhere and anytime.
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Automation , Computer circuits , Control systems , DC motors , Electric machine control , Electronic document exchange , Engineering education , Fuzzy logic , Personal computers , Process control , Students , Temperature control , Three term control systems , Engineering concepts , Engineering institutions , Engineering Technology departments , Engineering technology students , Quality of education , Real-time changes , Real-time remote control , Undergraduate engineering , Quality control