The complexity of classical engineering disciplines need modern development tools, particularly in the area of automatic control and system control technologies. One of these modern development tools is a rapid-control-protoyping (rcp).
The aim target of this student project is to apply such a system to various application. Because it is considered that it is important for students of engineering subjects to get familiar with this novel development process. In a particular lab course in the mechatronics curriculum students should run through all phases of control system design, code generation and implementation.
This student project contains the installation and utilization of a Slackware-Linux based system. The base-system augmented by several add-on packages (RTLinux, COMEDI, STRTL, ...), to implement an rcp-system for the lab course. For this lab course extended student lab excercises have been developed. These excercises (basic i/o routines, digital signal processing examples and closed-loop-controller design) should train the students in model identifcation, controller design, simulation, and finally compare the simulation results with the behaviour of the real hardware.

March 30, 2009