Digital twins of rotary motion and cart-pendulum platforms for education in automatic control

• Traver, José Emilio ^[1] ; Nuevo-Gallardo, Cristina ^[1] ; Rodríguez, Paloma ^[1] ; Tejado, Inés ^[1] ; Vinagre, Blas M. ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Extremadura

     Universidad de Extremadura

     Badajoz, España

     
• Localización: XLIII Jornadas de Automática: libro de actas: 7, 8 y 9 de septiembre de 2022, Logroño (La Rioja) / coord. por Carlos Balaguer Bernaldo de Quirós, José Manuel Andújar Márquez, Ramón Costa Castelló, C. Ocampo-Martínez, Juan Jesús Fernández Lozano, Matilde Santos Peñas, José Simó, Montserrat Gil Martínez, José Luis Calvo-Rolle, Raúl Marín, Eduardo Rocón de Lima, Elisabet Estévez Estévez, Pedro Jesús Cabrera Santana, David Muñoz de la Peña Sequedo, José Luis Guzmán Sánchez, José Luis Pitarch Pérez, Óscar Reinoso García, Óscar Déniz Suárez, Emilio Jiménez Macías, Vanesa Loureiro-Vázquez, 2022, ISBN 978-84-9749-841-8, págs. 317-324
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Modern educational systems, similarly to Industry 4.0, are focusing their efforts to the development of new digital resources that allow to understand, simulate, predict, and optimize real systems through virtual replicas. In this sense, digital twins (DTs), which are high-fidelity virtual or digital representations of a physical product or process, are turning into a disruptive trend in the education sector and its influence is expected to be significant on future of many degrees, especially in engineering. This paper presents the DTs of three educational platforms which are widely used in automatic control for educative purposes: rotary motion equipment developed by Quanser, and a cart-pendulum platform developed by Feedback Instruments. The DTs have been built in the MATLAB®/Simulink© environment thanks to the physical modeling toolbox SimscapeTM through blocks contained in its libraries rather than using mathematical models. A set of possible control exercises that can be performed by students of automatic control courses are proposed, which are supported by the use of these educative resources.