Laboratory hot-air stand instrumentation and its program support

Abstract

The paper deals with instrumentation and program support for experimental control tasks with laboratory model Hot-Air Stand (HAS) solved at the Department of CSI 352 of the VŠB-TU of Ostrava. This model represent the heating part of air-conditioning unit with possibility to control the temperature and volume of hot air flow, including of their disturbance simulation.. It allows realizing interesting measurement and control tasks: - identification of static and dynamic HAS subsystems and sensors characteristic, - experimental verification of controller synthesis results, - synthesis of the new control algorithms (ON-OFF algorithm, PID, fuzzy, neuron nets). Lab stand HAP is supported with simulation program tools (for instance MATLAB-Simulink or WinSIPRO) and mainly with own program module WinCTRL (version 2.0) for real time control of physical function models. Properties and results obtained by this program module with last version of HAP 2004 are also presented. The presented results have been obtained with the financial support of the GAČR, during of completing the research project No. GAČR 101/03/0625.