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HUMUSOFT produces a family of educational models for teaching control systems engineering. Models are designed to allow students apply their control engineering knowledge to carry out experiments with real dynamic systems. In such a way, student's engineering sense can be effectively developed.

All systems are controlled by a PC and are supplied with Windows, Real Time Toolbox for Simulink and Real-Time Windows Target based controllers. Together with the model, the user obtains a comprehensive technical and educational documentation including corresponding mathematical models and recommended range of experiments. Source codes facilitating the development of customised controllers also provided. Systems are directly accessible from Simulink environment in real time. This allows to perform more sophisticated experiments including system identification, state estimation and adaptive, nonlinear, fuzzy and neural network based controller design.

A unique feature of the models is the flexibility in accessing the hardware using the Real Time Toolbox for Simulink. Moreover, included Real Time Toolbox as an open real time control and data acquisition product can be used also as standalone solution for other real time experiments. For instance, it is possible to use Real Time Toolbox, together with the USB camera and multifunction I/O card MF624, which form a part of CE151 Ball & Plate Apparatus, to carry out general real-time image processing experiments. All models are also compatible with Real-Time Windows Target which is a standard solution for real-time control by The MathWorks.