An open-source graphical library for the development of Interactive Tools

Interactive tools have been consolidated as an excellent complement for control education, providing a real-time connection between decisions made during the design phase and results obtained in the analysis stage. Most of them usually include interactive figures with interactive curves, shapes, or lines, which represent theoretical ideas. However, from an educational point of view, it would be useful to provide interactive schemes of the real processes which are begin simulated, in such a way that modifications on the process scheme are directly related with the rest of interactive figures and the system equations. Therefore, this paper presents a graphical library including a set of interactive schemes for several processes, such as tanks, pendulums, or ball and beams. The library has been performed as support for the Sysquake programming environment, which is one the most important environments to develop interactive tools.