PROMOTING SELF-STUDY IN CONTROL SYSTEMS THROUGH AUTO-ASSESSMENT TOOLS

In this work we aim to develop several auto-assessment computer based tools integrated in virtual educational platforms such as Moodle. The goal is to promote individual practice in the laboratory sessions of the subject Automatic Control Systems which is taught in the third academic year of the engineering degrees. This tool allows the student to have an immediate feedback of his aptitudes on solving control engineering related problems in a previous work that must be done prior to the experimental practices. Moreover, it alleviates time and place constraints which favour the predisposition of the student to undertake the given problems. For these purposes, we have adapted the already existing quiz tool in Moodle to include explicitly parameterized control problems such as system modelling, system identification, and control tuning with both experimental and model based techniques. With this, we have automatically generated different problem proposals by means of time and gain shifts, what allows us to assure the self-study.