An educational virtual laboratory for sliding mode and PID control of inverted pendulum

This paper presents a new tool which teaches sliding mode control (SMC) and proportional-integral- derivative (PID) control to undergraduate and graduate students without laboratory. This educational virtual laboratory tool contains the control of inverted pendulum on the cart. This system is typical example of nonlinear and under-actuated systems. This system is also well known in control engineering for practice of various control theories. At first, the nonlinear dynamic equations of the inverted pendulum are obtained. Then a virtual laboratory tool is designed for SMC and PID. After that the simulation results are analyzed.