Conference proceeding
Virtual Experiments for Digital Controller Design Projects
1999 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: Engineering: Education to Serve the World; Charlotte, NC; USA; 20-23 June 1999
20 Jun 1999
Abstract
We are developing a set of software applications that simulate and animate physical systems such as traffic at an intersection, and monorail and elevator systems. We call the software applications "virtual experiments, " and use them to teach digital controller design. These software applications run on a PC or a Macintosh to provide real-time simulations and animation which interact with an external controller via the computer's 10 port. The students design different problems in which the controller receives information about the state of the system and sends the control signals to the virtual experiment software application. The students can solve these control problems using software solutions, e.g., via a microcontroller, and hardware/firmware solutions via Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The courses that can use this teaching tool include design with microcontroller and digital systems (FPGA) design.
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Details
- Title
- Virtual Experiments for Digital Controller Design Projects
- Creators
- Prawat Nagvajara
- Publication Details
- 1999 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: Engineering: Education to Serve the World; Charlotte, NC; USA; 20-23 June 1999
- Conference
- 1999 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: Engineering: Education to Serve the World (Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 20 Jun 1999 - 23 Jun 1999)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Identifiers
- 991019173960204721