A LOW-COST OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE IN CONTROL EDUCATION. CASE STUDY: ARDUINO-FEEDBACK MS-150

In this paper, we present a low-cost approach to upgrade an old Feedback system in order to widen the number and type of possible experiments in control education. This approach combines several different software technologies: C language for microcontroller programming, Matlab to chart data, Simulink to control the system, AJAX and XML for the client-side application, web services in the server-side application and serial I2-C bus interface to read/write data from/to Feedback system. The ideas here explained could be applicable to any other physical system.