A Miniaturized Industrial Plant for Educational Purpose in Industrial Control

This work presents a miniaturized industrial plant built to portray a hydraulic and thermal system. The system was developed in a low-cost open-source platform for studies in the fields of automation, dynamic systems, and control. In order to test its capacity, different techniques of classic and modern control, estimation, modeling, and identification were applied. It should be noted that the work provides the ability to reproduction and continuous development of the plant, and also examples of educational applications, reducing the demand for laboratory equipment acquisition for teaching and research in Universities.