Design of an embedded control system laboratory experiment

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3297-3307

  Marti, Pau ^a   Velasco, Manel ^a   Fuertes, Josep M ^a   Camacho, Antonio ^a   Buttazzo, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Control systems; embedded system education; laboratory experiment; real time systems

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED CONTROL SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEM ENGINEERINGS; GRADUATE STUDENTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS;

CONTROL THEORY; CURRICULA; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORIES; REAL TIME CONTROL; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956593726     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2040559     Document Type: Article

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