RCDue - experimental identification of continuous- and discrete-time models

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the education and teaching of process control and automation. Various laboratory equipment is used to explain and better understand the theory and to gain practical experience. The authors have designed and developed a simple electrical dynamical system RCDue (dynamic model with passive RC components and Arduino Due as measurement and communication unit) that allows students to perform various laboratory experiments – e.g. static and dynamic characteristics measurements, modeling, experimental identification, control design and application of from the simplest strategies to advanced methods. Specifically, in this paper, the authors focus on experimental identification.