EDUCATIONAL-ASPECTS OF CAD SUPPORTED REAL-TIME CONTROL

The paper deals with educational aspects of CAD supported real time co ntrol. In the Introduction, the historical development of the equipmen t and appropriate software concerning laboratory exercises in the fiel d of real time control is briefly described. Then the hardware and sof tware equipment used in our education process is briefly described. Em phasis is given to the equipment we developed: a hydraulic-thermal pil ot plant, two CACSD program packages with their real time capabilities , and a special program for real time control in addition to emphasizi ng their connection in a powerful educational system. Some typical exe rcises from undergraduate courses, e.g., some experiments on the conne ction of analog and digital computer, identification of the hydraulic process and its level control, as well as some exercises from a gradua te course, e.g., the implementation of adaptive digital filtering in r eal time are described. Some difficulties encountered when applying th e theory to practical problems will be discussed.