Name
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
The objective of technical courses is the transfer of knowledge and know-how to students. In the case of discrete event system courses, it is important for a learner to locally or remotely control real systems (or plants) that are composed of many sensors and actuators. The use of these devices poses several problems. First, it is difficult to adapt them to the student's level (from beginner to expert). Second, these systems are generally designed with industrial components. An error on the control-command design can involve safety problems and breakdowns. In this paper, the authors propose an original solution to solve these two problems. To guarantee the safety of the operators and the equipment, an approach using a validation filter is proposed. It is based on the definition of logical constraints, which should in no case be violated. To adapt the difficulty level, it is proposed to modify the level of automation. For that, the functional dimension of the automation system is modified to adapt the student's level of autonomy. The level of automation is defined by the teacher by means of a functional analysis of the system. To validate the approach, it is applied to an original project with ten-year-old children on a packaging system. The aim of the project is to enable ldquoyoung novice control engineersrdquo to perform their first programmable logic controller program to control the whole system. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2007 | 10.1109/TIE.2007.907021 | IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
control engineering computing,control engineering education,discrete event systems,educational courses,factory automation,industrial control,industrial training,programmable controllers,DES courses,control-command design,discrete event system courses,industrial automation system remote control,operators safety,programmable logic controller program,technical courses,training,validation filter,young novice control engineers,Control,control engineering course,discrete event system (DES),functional identification,validation | Remote control,Process automation system,Control theory,Computer science,Engineering education,Control engineering,Automation,Operator (computer programming),Programmable logic controller,Real systems,Actuator | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
54 | 6 | 0278-0046 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
8 | 0.95 | 13 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pascale Marange | 1 | 13 | 3.12 |
| François Gellot | 2 | 13 | 4.47 |
| Bernard Riera | 3 | 24 | 8.31 |