Using Matlab real-time workshop in teaching control design techniques

This paper shows an application of how to use the Matlab-Simulink Real-Time Workshop environment for helping in some Control Lab Course. The main goal is to use a CACSD (Computer Aided Control System Design) environment in order to automate the implementation of a Real-Time controller. That is to say, once the controller is obtained and validated by simulation, it is implemented in the real process, a mobile robot, by means of the Matlab Real-Time Workshop. The main benefit of this method is that students can see immediately the effect of their controller when it is applied to the real plant without losing themselves in C programming.