Online control education using 3D holographic visualisation

Interactive 3D visualization technology has brought many benefits into education. Since it is possible to visualize behavior of wide range of devices, it is much easier to imagine processes where these devices are included. The paper demonstrates the application for interactive teaching of control theory. It allows to simulate a holographic model of a selected mechatronic system that is a digital visualization of the real device. The behaviour of the device is controlled by Scilab/Xcos, which is open‐source, cross‐platform numerical computational environment. The main purpose of the application is to help students with better understanding of physical meaning of abstract mathematical models, that describes dynamical systems.