Experiment-based teaching in advanced control engineering

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 345-355

  Precup, Radu Emil ^a   Preitl, Stefan ^a   Radac, Mircea Bogdan ^a   Petriu, Emil M ^b   Dragos, Claudia Adina ^a   Tar, Jzsef K ^c  

^a POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c ÓBUDA UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Advanced control engineering (ACE); antilock braking system (ABS); experiment based teaching; hands on laboratory experiments; mathematical modeling

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CONTROL; ANTI-LOCK BRAKING; EXPERIMENT-BASED TEACHING; HANDS-ON LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING;

BRAKES; BRAKING; FUZZY CONTROL; LONGITUDINAL CONTROL; TWO TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 80051548004     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2010.2058575     Document Type: Article

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