@inproceedings{RuettersBragardDolls2024,
  author    = {R{\"u}tters, Ren{\´e} and Bragard, Michael and Dolls, Sarah},
  title     = {The Inverted Rotary Pendulum: Facilitating Practical Teaching in Advanced Control Engineering},
  series = {2024 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  address   = {New York, NY},
  issn      = {2165-9559},
  doi       = {10.1109/EDUCON60312.2024.10578937},
  pages     = {5 Seiten},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {This paper outlines a practical approach to teach control engineering principles, with an inverted rotary pendulum, serving as an illustrative example. It shows how the pendulum is embedded in an advanced course of control engineering. This approach is incorporated into a flipped-classroom concept, as well as classical teaching concepts, offering students practical experience in control engineering. In addition, the design of the pendulum is shown, using a Raspberry Pi as the target platform for Matlab Simulink. This pendulum can be used in the classroom to evaluate the controller design mentioned above. It is analysed if the use of the pendulum generates a deeper understanding of the learning contents.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{BeckerBragard2024,
  author    = {Becker, Tim and Bragard, Michael},
  title     = {Low-Voltage DC Training Lab for Electric Drives - Optimizing the Balancing Act Between High Student Throughput and Individual Learning Speed},
  series = {2024 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  address   = {New York, NY},
  issn      = {2165-9559},
  doi       = {10.1109/EDUCON60312.2024.10578902},
  pages     = {8 Seiten},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {After a brief introduction of conventional laboratory structures, this work focuses on an innovative and universal approach for a setup of a training laboratory for electric machines and drive systems. The novel approach employs a central 48 V DC bus, which forms the backbone of the structure. Several sets of DC machine, asynchronous machine and synchronous machine are connected to this bus. The advantages of the novel system structure are manifold, both from a didactic and a technical point of view: Student groups can work on their own performance level in a highly parallelized and at the same time individualized way. Additional training setups (similar or different) can easily be added. Only the total power dissipation has to be provided, i.e. the DC bus balances the power flow between the student groups. Comparative results of course evaluations of several cohorts of students are shown.},
  language  = {en}
}