NETWORKS IN CONTROL EDUCATION

Abstract Technological development has brought the use of networks in control to the mainstream. To reflect new trends in control technology a distributed control laboratory was developed. The laboratory is interdisciplinary and integrates a wide range of state-of-the-art technologies and standards representing modern industrial distributed control systems. The laboratory concentrates on developing of control algorithms operating under varying network conditions. A typical configurations of the laboratory experiment and basic steps of students work are described in the paper.

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