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A modular control systems laboratory

It is often difficult for students to visualize how control theory relates to real systems. Computer simulations can help, but simulations alone are limited by how well the system in question has been modeled. In general, simulations are more helpful to engineers with sufficient experience with real systems than they are to students who may have never seen the actual systems in action. It is more enlightening if the results obtained theoretically are actually applied to a physical system. Applying the theoretically calculated results to a real system helps the student not only to visualize, but to evaluate how well the model was able to predict the system performance. To this end, a new interdisciplinary controls laboratory has been introduced jointly in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Departments of Oklahoma State University.