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Blending Traditional and Modern Approaches to Teaching Control Theory

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Cyber-Physical Systems and Control (CPS&C 2019)

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Control Theory serves as a fundamental background for a number of popular paradigms, including the cyber-physical one. The contents have been standardized over the decades of teaching, but new digital technologies and market practical skills demand to raise the questions on how the course is to be taught. The goal of the report is to share the results of 3 years (2015–2018) of experimenting on the transition from classical to project-based blended design of the Modern Control and Automation course. The course is part of the curricula of the SPbPU MSc degree programme “Management of Innovative Processes (Innovatika)”; 75 students were taught. Now, the course is represented by online and offline studying of the basic theoretical aspects and hands-on development of a hardware device in a project group. Each element of the course, its three-year evolution, analysis of the collected data, results of surveys and recommendations for adaptation of the used tools for teaching control theory in the frames of another educational program or university are described in the article.

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This report was partially supported by CEPHEI project of the ERASMUS+ EU framework.

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  1. Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Inna A. Seledtsova & Leonid Chechurin

  2. LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Inna A. Seledtsova & Leonid Chechurin

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  1. Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Dmitry G. Arseniev

  2. Institute of Transport and Automation Technology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Garbsen, Niedersachsen, Germany

    Ludger Overmeyer

  3. Machine Vision and Pattern Recognition Laboratory, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Heikki Kälviäinen

  4. Institute of Production Engineering and Photonic Technologies, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Branko Katalinić

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Seledtsova, I.A., Chechurin, L. (2020). Blending Traditional and Modern Approaches to Teaching Control Theory. In: Arseniev, D., Overmeyer, L., Kälviäinen, H., Katalinić, B. (eds) Cyber-Physical Systems and Control. CPS&C 2019. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 95. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34983-7_62

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