Virtual laboratory OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES CONTROL

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Virtual laboratoryOF TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES
CONTROL

• Department of Electrical, Mechatronic and
  Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Electrical
  Engineering and Informatics, Technical University
  of Košice, Slovak Republic

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A virtual laboratory is physically situated in
two faculties FEI TU in Kosice and FEI STU in
Bratislava
Joint virtual laboratory is dedicated to
technological process control via small logic
controllers, which present the main tools used
at basic level of automation of mechatronic
systems and technological processes.
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The main aim is to involve a design aspect.

• Because a virtual laboratory presents a new
  e-learning tool in which the experiments should
  not be only analysis oriented (to measure and see
  the results) but also synthesis oriented.

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Educational Objectives

• 1) To make the students familiar with
• Projecting of the systems with small logic
  controller (SLC )
• Programming of the SLC and visualisation
  of the system performance
• 2) To enable students to get practical
  experiences with
• Design and debugging of controlling
  algorithms for SLC
• Control of real processes

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The general structural scheme of the virtual
laboratory
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The main assets of building the virtual
laboratory will be that

• VL will serve for teaching subjects related to
  automation, control and visualization of
  technological processes

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The benefits for students

• The higher quality of teaching
• Higher attractiveness of study
• Possibility of unlimited access to solution of
  automation tasks in terms of time
• Increase in practical knowledge and experience
  with the design and implementation of
  technological process control systems based on
  logic controllers