Simulation of temperature control

INTRODUCTION

V 1.1e

We want to consider the following system.

In our case the plant is a simple system consisting of a tube, a heater (HE) inside the tube and a ventilator (VE).

As the user your task is to design a feedback controller in order to control the temperature of this system.
To design a feedback controller you have to carry out the following 5 steps:

	based on:	Menu option:
Determination: type of the plant	Step response of the plant	S1
Determination: parameters of the plant	Step response of the plant	S1
Choice: suitable controller	Type and parameters of the plant	S2
Determination: parameters of the controller	estimation methods	S2
Test		S3

In order to process the individual steps of this simulation, a WWW Browser is necessary, which supports Java and JavaScript.

There are some buttons in order to control calculation, etc. In the following table these buttons are described.

**Buttons and their meaning**
	Go to the next page/step
	Go to the previous page/step
RESET	All variables are set on initial values.
Save	All values of the variables/parameters are saved into the global memory and are available for the following steps.
Suggestion	Press this button in order to get a suggestion of values for the current parameters (only S1).
Set RS Par	The parameters of the plant are set again (only S1).

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