Methodology for Teaching Model-Oriented Design of Mechatronic Systems

The paper discusses the issues of model-oriented design of embedded control systems for various purposes by means of Matlab-Simulink for DSP-controllers TMS and STM32. The examples of laboratory testing facilities intended for students (bachelors/undergraduates) studying the basics of drive control systems designing, familiarizing themselves with the material and technical means for mechatronic systems implementing, developing control system algorithms in a Matlab-Simulink environment, generating executable code, loading it into the controller and the results verification are presented in the article. A modem approach of teaching students the basics of automatic control should go along with the methods of mechatronic systems model-oriented design, which is one of the most promising design methods nowadays. The developer has almost unlimited possibilities in the field of constructing object control algorithms of any complexity with the loadable library modules and compilers for executable code generation in the Matlab-Simulink environment for TMS and STM32 DSP-controllers and a number of others. The proposed teaching methodology covers a wide aspect of competencies in related fields such as: electrical machines, automatic control theory, circuit engineering and microelectronics and modeling.