MATLAB case-based reasoning GUI application for control engineering education

Abstract

This paper represents using Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) in order to support undergraduate control engineering students for learning nonlinear systems and control applications. CBR is an experience-based problem solving methodology; thus, it is used for helping control engineering students to design conventional PID controllers for nonlinear systems. For this purpose, GUNT pH neutralization process is used as the experimental setup and a GUI is designed for cased-based reasoning in MATLAB. It is observed that undergraduate students can learn and increase their experience on nonlinear systems using the proposed new CBR-GUI.