摘要：AbstractThis article describes the experience of using commercial, affordable, and portable Arduino-based kits to teach automatic control in different engineering courses at the University of Almería, Spain. The kits, named APMonitor Temperature Control Lab (TCLab), were provided to undergraduate and master's students and used as real systems to perform open-loop and closed-loop tests that help to complete a series of practical exercises. A description of how TCLab was used in five different courses together with examples of the proposed exercises are given, which could serve as inspiration to lecturers and educators for designing their own proposals. In particular, results are presented for model calibration by means of the least-squares algorithm, and for predictive control algorithms. According to the students’ feedback, obtained via an anonymous survey and open debates, it was challenging (but very motivating) to work with TCLab. Most of them also consider it a flexible and suitable platform for grasping control engineering concepts.
