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Automatic Control with Interactive Tools

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In this introductory chapter, the relevance of visualization and interactivity in the automatic control field are explained, as well as their influence on learning, and related advantages and drawbacks. Automatic control education field is one of the areas where interactivity plays a major influence.

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    http://bricklin.com/visicalc.htm.

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    Clicking and dragging is a way to move certain objects on the screen. To move an object, place the mouse cursor over it, press and hold down the left mouse button, then move the mouse while still holding down the left mouse button. When you have dragged the object to the location you want, let go of the mouse button.

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  1. Systems Engineering and Automatic Control Division, Department of Informatics, School of Engineering, CIESOL-ceiA3, University of Almería, Almería, Spain

    José Luis Guzmán & Manuel Berenguel

  2. Departament d’Enginyeria de Sistemes, Automàtica, i Informàtica Industrial (ESAII), Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona (ETSEIB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

    Ramon Costa-Castelló

  3. Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control, School of Computer Engineering, National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain

    Sebastián Dormido

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Guzmán, J.L., Costa-Castelló, R., Berenguel, M., Dormido, S. (2023). Introduction. In: Automatic Control with Interactive Tools. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09920-5_1

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