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Authors
Sulc, Bohumil; Vrána, Stanislav

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.3182/20120619-3-RU-2024.00087

Page Numbers:
454-459

Index Terms
Challenges for control engineering curricula; Teaching aids for control engineering; Continuing control education in industry

Abstract
There are many types of controllers and various methods for their tuning. It is not possible to explain the principles of all of them to students. Usually, PID controller and the Ziegler-Nichols methods are taught at universities and then some other one or two other types of control, if they are practiced and not only briefly mentioned. The theoretical principles and approaches are mainly explained without details about implementation that sometimes needs special procedures. Several problems that should be more focused in control engineering education on are presented in the paper.

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