An Aquaponics System Design for Computational Intelligence Teaching

How to design an effective experiment system to teach computational intelligence methods is big challenge nowadays. For the computational intelligence course, we design an aquaponics system and use the project-based teaching method. The aquaponics experiment system includes PLC, LabVIEW and OPC technology. The computational intelligence teaching project has data acquisition, sensors, and model subsystems. This project-based teaching method not only allows students to easily learn the computational intelligence methods and soft measurement, but also enhances their practical skills. Finally, we provide the teaching evaluation of the proposed teaching method.

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