Experience from Various Technological Concepts Applied in Virtual Control Laboratory

Nowadays, tuition of Control Engineering in the courses, which are usually obligatory for all students attending technical universities, is unimaginable without passing a practical part in laboratories. Set-ups in such laboratories have undergone its evolution. Instead of demos of real industrial control solutions on small-scale laboratory models, increasing interest is paid to the tasks presenting control problems on attractive models invoking natural interest for heuristic mastering them. These specially designed model devices are linked with PCs in order to provide realistic HMI and, then, of course, with Internet. The aim of the paper is a short presentation of these set-ups by their names characterizing the demonstrated activity. In addition we wish to present our experience from the application of various technologies used in creating virtual version of these tasks. The virtual versions try to be true computer copies of the real models. This makes possible a preliminary preparation of the students for the given task and after that a certain confrontation of the results with those obtained in reality carrying out similar out similar experiment on the place in the laboratory or through remote access via Internet.