Arduino Support for Personalized Learning of Control Theory Basics

摘要

This paper discusses a possibility how to make learning of control theory basics more interesting for an individual learner. Specifically, an approach of learning by doing is applied when using a low-cost Arduino architecture for each student. As an example of dynamical systems simple RLC-circuits have been chosen. The advantage of Matlab/Simulink support of Arduino platform has enabled students to perform programming tasks from known environment. This paper concentrates on a limited part of the control theory, namely the static and dynamic characteristics. Particularly, in this paper we will present how to construct different RLC circuits, measure following characteristics: static I/O characteristic, step, impulse and frequency responses and identify their parameters.