Educational Platform for Teaching Automation and Control Engineering: A Pneumatic Levitation System

Victor Huilcapi; Ricardo Cajo; Victor Ponguillo; Gustavo Gomez

doi:10.1109/EDUNINE57531.2023.10102909

Educational Platform for Teaching Automation and Control Engineering: A Pneumatic Levitation System

Victor Huilcapi, Ricardo Cajo, Victor Ponguillo, Gustavo Gomez

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Abstract

In this paper, the design and implementation of an industrial automation platform and a pneumatic levitation system are proposed. This system allows to analyze and evaluate control algorithms. The user interface and control were designed based on LabViewand MATLAB programming tools. A first learning activity for students (in the proposed system) is the design of controllers based on model and, in designer's experience in the process. Therefore, two controllers are proposed. The first one a traditional proportional-integral-derivative (PID) and the other one a PD-fuzzy controller. The performance of each controller was analyzed by comparing the outputs for tracking reference (step input). The educational platform was created with the aim of contributing to the strengthening of the teaching-learning processes of the main theoretical aspects of control engineering and programmable logic controllers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	EDUNINE 2023 - 7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Reimaging Engineering - Toward the Next Generation of Engineering Education, Merging Technologies in a Connected World, Proceedings
Editors	Claudio da Rocha Brito, Melany M. Ciampi
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9798350320503
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUNINE57531.2023.10102909
State	Published - 2023
Event	7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference, EDUNINE 2023 - Bogota, Colombia Duration: 12 Mar 2023 → 15 Mar 2023

Publication series

Name	EDUNINE 2023 - 7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference: Reimaging Engineering - Toward the Next Generation of Engineering Education, Merging Technologies in a Connected World, Proceedings

Conference

Conference	7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference, EDUNINE 2023
Country/Territory	Colombia
City	Bogota
Period	12/03/23 → 15/03/23

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors thank the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana of Ecuador, since this work was carried out in its Industrial Automation Laboratory. Also so to the Research Groups In Control Systems and Robotics (GISCOR) and Industrial Automation and Control (GIACI). This work has been supported by Universidad Politécnica Salesiana through project No. 04-016-2021-09-22.

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© 2023 IEEE.

Keywords

control engineering
educational platform
Industrial automation
PD-fuzzy controller
PID controller
pneumatic levitation system

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Huilcapi, V., Cajo, R., Ponguillo, V., & Gomez, G. (2023). Educational Platform for Teaching Automation and Control Engineering: A Pneumatic Levitation System. In C. da Rocha Brito, & M. M. Ciampi (Eds.), EDUNINE 2023 - 7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference: Reimaging Engineering - Toward the Next Generation of Engineering Education, Merging Technologies in a Connected World, Proceedings (EDUNINE 2023 - 7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference: Reimaging Engineering - Toward the Next Generation of Engineering Education, Merging Technologies in a Connected World, Proceedings). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUNINE57531.2023.10102909

Huilcapi, Victor ; Cajo, Ricardo ; Ponguillo, Victor et al. / Educational Platform for Teaching Automation and Control Engineering : A Pneumatic Levitation System. EDUNINE 2023 - 7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference: Reimaging Engineering - Toward the Next Generation of Engineering Education, Merging Technologies in a Connected World, Proceedings. editor / Claudio da Rocha Brito ; Melany M. Ciampi. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. (EDUNINE 2023 - 7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference: Reimaging Engineering - Toward the Next Generation of Engineering Education, Merging Technologies in a Connected World, Proceedings).

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Huilcapi, V, Cajo, R, Ponguillo, V & Gomez, G 2023, Educational Platform for Teaching Automation and Control Engineering: A Pneumatic Levitation System. in C da Rocha Brito & MM Ciampi (eds), EDUNINE 2023 - 7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference: Reimaging Engineering - Toward the Next Generation of Engineering Education, Merging Technologies in a Connected World, Proceedings. EDUNINE 2023 - 7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference: Reimaging Engineering - Toward the Next Generation of Engineering Education, Merging Technologies in a Connected World, Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference, EDUNINE 2023, Bogota, Colombia, 12/03/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUNINE57531.2023.10102909

Educational Platform for Teaching Automation and Control Engineering: A Pneumatic Levitation System. / Huilcapi, Victor; Cajo, Ricardo; Ponguillo, Victor et al.
EDUNINE 2023 - 7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference: Reimaging Engineering - Toward the Next Generation of Engineering Education, Merging Technologies in a Connected World, Proceedings. ed. / Claudio da Rocha Brito; Melany M. Ciampi. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. (EDUNINE 2023 - 7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference: Reimaging Engineering - Toward the Next Generation of Engineering Education, Merging Technologies in a Connected World, Proceedings).

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Huilcapi V, Cajo R, Ponguillo V, Gomez G. Educational Platform for Teaching Automation and Control Engineering: A Pneumatic Levitation System. In da Rocha Brito C, Ciampi MM, editors, EDUNINE 2023 - 7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference: Reimaging Engineering - Toward the Next Generation of Engineering Education, Merging Technologies in a Connected World, Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2023. (EDUNINE 2023 - 7th IEEE World Engineering Education Conference: Reimaging Engineering - Toward the Next Generation of Engineering Education, Merging Technologies in a Connected World, Proceedings). doi: 10.1109/EDUNINE57531.2023.10102909

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