Construção de um módulo didático de baixo custo para controle de nível usando o arduino

Abstract

Process control is an industrial necessity, several industrial processes are passive in the implementation of methods of control, being the PID controller (Proportional Integral Derivative) the most used. For this reason, it is important that the profile of graduates from the undergraduate course of Engineering has knowledge in this area. Due to the degree of complexity of the subjects of the Engineering course, didactic modules are used as an educational tool aiming at better learning, the subject of process control benefits very well from these tools, however, didactic control modules have a high cost, making their acquisition difficult. For this reason, the objective of this final paper is to build a didactic module of level control, enabling the application of the PID controller and its derivatives (Proportional and / or Integral and / or Derivative) to use it in the educational environment, providing a better experience for engineering students. In order to minimize costs, the controller used was an Arduino Nano board, which has relatively low cost and easy implementation. The base material used to make the module was reused from old FabLab projects at the Francisco Beltrão campus, at Universidade Tecnológica Federal of Paraná.