Physical Modeling based Simulators to Support Teaching in Automatic Control: the Rotatory Pendulum*

Recently, teachers and researchers developed a huge variety of resources to support teaching, especially for engineering degrees. This paper describes the development of physical modeling based simulators in the Simulink©/Simscape™ environment as interactive tools to validate regulators in Automatic Control. This type of modeling uses a physical network approach to model building: only requires to join the physical components with physical connections to define the underlying dynamic equations of the system to be modeled. The simulator of the rotatory pendulum Qube™-Servo of Quanser© is given as an illustrative example.