Compact Model “Playground”

Scope of performance

Our Automatic Control Compact Model Playground is an “all-in-one” compact model. The new version 3.0 provides eight different plants and thus allows the user to carry out many experiments. Like in a real experimental environment the experiments can easily be configured by setting jumpers.

Experimental user interface of the ‘Automatic Control Playground’

The Automatic Control Compact Model Playground offers the following features:

Eight plants with and without compensation:
- Speed (can alternatively be used as P-T₂ – or P-T₃ – plant)
- Temperature (P-T₃ – plant)
- Pressure (P-T₁ – plant)
- Light (P-T₀ – plant)
- Filling level (I-plant)
- Position (I-T₁ – plant)
- Flow control (P-T₁-T_t – plant)
- User-defined plant
Available controller types:
- Freely configurable PID controller
- Two-position-controller with/without hysteresis
- Three-position-controller (symmetric)
- Three-position-controller (asymmetric)
General-purpose signal generator for generating various testing signals (step, pulse, ramp, sinus)
Activating disturbances
Scalable display of all momentary values and time responses with the possibility of grafic analysis (e. g. for inflectional tangent methods) and the saving of curves for later processing.
Alternatively standard or endless simulation
Selectable German/English user interface
Comprehensive online help

Our introductory video illustrates the handling.

Thus the Automatic Control Compact Model Playground is suited very well as a supplement or an alternative to our proven automatic control compact models.

All on the playground available plants are internally realized as superblocks for our block-oriented simulation system BORIS. So they can be used in BORIS for simulations independently of the automatic control playground and users with a BORIS-license can customize them (e. g. by changing transfer coefficients or time constants), if needed.

Videos

	Automatic Control Playground 3.0 (English)
	Regelungstechnik-Spielwiese (German/English)
	Regelerentwurf nach Ziegler/Nichols mit der Regelungstechnik-Spielwiese (German)