Educational software for teaching methods that determine the stability of control systems

Abstract

An educational software for teaching basic concepts in an introductory course in Control Theory is presented. Allows with relative ease the explanation of rules, calculation procedures and conclusions involved in Root Locus, Bode Plots and Nyquist Diagrams. The software allows to visualize how different control techniques modify the corresponding diagrams and to analyse the effect of these modes on the absolute and relative stability of the system under analysis.