Dynamic Control Systems Course (DL SMART-DCS)

Goal: Familiarize the student with basic control concepts and introduce him/her to plants. Control contents: Studying the plant, control concepts, first steps, communication.

Goal: Implement and discuss a system controlled by the user. Control contents: Open loop control.

Goal: Study the 2 parts of a response and their importance. Control contents: System response.

Goal: Implement an on-off controller and evaluate its performance. Control contents: On-off controller.

Goal: Implement a proporcional controller and discuss its advantages and limitations. Control contents: Proportional controller.

Goal: Present the Siemens PID controller to be used as a tool from this point on. Control contents: PID controller.

Goal: Implement a PI controller, present how to tune it, and study the impact of the integral action. Control contents: PI controller.

Goal: Implement a PD controller and study the derivative contribution. Control contents: PD controller.

Goal: Present and apply the Ziegler-Nichols method to a control system. Control contents: Ziegler-Nichols (open loop).

Goal: Present and apply the Ziegler-Nichols method to a control system. Control contents: Ziegler-Nichols (closed loop).

Goal: Study and implement other parametrization methods. Control contents: Other parametrization methods

With the industrial 3D environments and also the built-in projects it´s possible to develop solutions that evolve basic control approaches, like open loop control, controllers tuning (ON-OFF, P, PI, PD, PID) and some tuning methods, like Ziegler-Nichols closed loop method.

• CONTROL CONCEPTS
• SCALING
• FUNCTION BLOCKS
• TRACE
• CONTROLLER

IT CONNECTS PROFESSOR, STUDENT AND SCHOOL

De Lorenzo´s cloud server receives students activities and provides reports and analytics to professors and institutions. Besides, a student can start working at school and continue at home or vice-versa. The platform includes a query and answer system that enables professors to support the students counting on a team of monitors. That means better support with less effort of the professors. The students can see questions asked by other colleagues too so that way if more than one student have the same doubt the professors answer will attend them all.

COMPATIBLE WITH THE DL SMART-DASHBOARD (SOLD SEPARETLY)

PROFESSORS CAN FOLLOW STUDENTS PROGRESS

The professor can do and access everything the student can. Besides, he/she can also access the dashboard’s portal. It includes interesting reports and analytics that help the professor to monitor the group in real time, as well as to identify students who are doing very well, as well as those who need help, who are not working at all and who seem to be “cheating”.

Tasks report

This is an important tool since it provides evidence of the activities a student worked on. That means the school has evidence of the practical activities the distance learner has done with detailed information about it.

PROFESSOR CAN SEE WHICH STUDENTS ARE ON SCHEDULE

With this interface, the professor may choose which groups he/she wants to monitor, to verify who is on schedule, who is pending and so on. It is possible to define the expected progress percentage in relation to the tasks available in the course.

RHYTHM

This other dashboard shows the number of activities the students did daily and weekly. The professor may decide to verify it regarding a whole group/class or a specific student.

EFFORT/TASK DEDICATED TIME

If the professor selects a student, he/she may verify how much time the student took to develop and deliver each task of the course.

PROGRESS VS TIME TAKEN

It is also possible to verify the distribution of the dedicated time with relation to the number of tasks done by each student at any period of time. That helps to identify who is doing well, who may need help, who is doing nothing and who is trying to cheat.

TRIALS PER TASK

This chart helps the teacher to understand which task may be the most difficult and which one may be the easiest in order to adjust the deadlines.

• IT’S A 3D SIMULATOR
• IT HAS BUILT-IN PROJECTS
• THE PROJECTS INCLUDE GUIDANCE
• + CONTENTS AND SUPPORT MATERIALS, SO THEY CAN LEARN BY THEMSELVES
• IT AUTOMATICALLY CHECKS STUDENT ACTIVITIES TO LET THEY MOVE ON, LIKE IN GAME
• PROFESSORS CAN MONITOR STUDENTS,AND VERIFY WHICH POINT THEY NEED HELP(Option available with Dashboard)

BUILT-IN PROJECTS, TASKS, INSTRUCTIONS, CONTENTS, AND AUTOMATIC VALIDATION

1. Each project has well defined goals and requirements.
2. They are structured in tasks, and each task has specific requirements and provides instructions,contents and guidance to the students.
3. When a student tests the developed solution and verifies that it meets the requirements, thestudent can deliver the task.
4. When a student delivers a task, the SMARTSIM itself tests the student´s solution in real time and allows him/her to go to the next step.