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DC Motor Educational Kit: A Teaching Aid in Control Theory

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CONTROLO 2016

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 402))

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This paper describes a laboratory control theory experiment supported by the use of a DC Motor Educational Kit. The impact, as a teaching aid, of the proposed laboratory control experiment is evaluated, having in mind the student’s feedback. The DC motor that is used in the developed educational Kit is the EMG30, being a low cost 12 V motor equipped with encoders and a 30:1 reduction gearbox. The experiment is based on real hardware and on simulation, using the SimTwo realistic simulation software. In order to implement the realistic simulation the EMG30 model was obtained. Students’ feedback was acquired using a questionnaire and the results confirmed the importance given to these practical experiments.

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Acknowledgments

This work is financed by the “Project TEC4Growth—Pervasive Intelligence, Enhancers and Proofs of Concept with Industrial Impact/NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000020”, which is financed by the North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, and through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computers, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    António Paulo Moreira & Paulo Costa

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

    José Gonçalves

  3. School of Applied Health Technology, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Brígida M. Faria

  4. INESC TEC, Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal

    António Paulo Moreira, Paulo Costa, José Gonçalves & Brígida M. Faria

  5. LIACC - Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory, Porto, Portugal

    Brígida M. Faria

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  1. School of Engineering,Campus de Couros, University of Minho School of Engineering,Campus de Couros, Guimarães, Portugal

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Moreira, A.P., Costa, P., Gonçalves, J., Faria, B.M. (2017). DC Motor Educational Kit: A Teaching Aid in Control Theory. In: Garrido, P., Soares, F., Moreira, A. (eds) CONTROLO 2016. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 402. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43671-5_74

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