USING THE WORLD WIDE WEB FOR CONTROL ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Christian Schmid

   This contribution discusses different ways in using the World Wide Web for control engineering education. First of all, an overview about leading classes of learning environments is given and different features are discussed illustrated by a line of examples. Especially the control engineering aspects are emphasised and a detailed review about laboratory environments on the Web is given. In the second part, the Virtual Control Lab (VCLab) developed at Ruhr-University Bochum is presented. This Web approach integrates software which uses the powerful computational engine of MATLAB/SIMULINK to do extensive simulations and interactive animation of control engineering experiments in virtual reality driven by local or Web wide information.

Keywords: control education, laboratory education, multimedia, software, teaching

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