Physical Modeling based Simulators to Support Teaching in Automatic Control: the Rotatory Pendulum**This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under the project DPI2012-37062-C02-02 and the Junta de Extremadura under the Ayuda a Grupos with reference GR15178.
Inés Tejado, Daniel Torres, Emiliano Pérez, Blas Manuel Vinagre · IFAC-PapersOnLine · 2016
Recently, teachers and researchers developed a huge variety of resources to support teaching, especially for engineering degrees. This paper describes the development of physical modeling based simulators in the Simulink©/Simscape™ environment as interactive tools to validate regulators in Automatic Control. This type of modeling uses a physical network approach to model building: only requires to join the physical components with physical connections to define the underlying dynamic equations of the system to be modeled. The simulator of the rotatory pendulum Qube™-Servo of Quanser© is given as an illustrative example.