Practices in real time and simulation for learning control theory

The control theory is a hard subject for the students. It is difficult for them to relate the theoretical concepts with the control process in real time. The main target of this paper is to allow student links control theory with practice through a set of practice developed in Matlab in simulation and in real time for a heat transference module, which involve basics control concepts such as transfer function, perturbation, time constant, final value, steady state error, proportional and proportional integral control, frequency response analysis and identification by least square.