Control Systems Design Course with a Focus for Applications in Mobile Robotics

摘要

Currently, the majority of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and mechatronics programs offer in their curriculum a type of control systems course. Traditionally the focus of these control courses is on the theory of classical control. There are some programs that offer the course with a focus in applications and programming of microcontrollers. There are also programs where the emphasis of the course is on the study of instrumentation and programmable logic controllers. One difficulty in teaching control systems is to provide a good balance between theory and practice. By incorporating a laboratory component, it could help to provide some connection between the abstract control theory and the real world applications.