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Motivation and Introduction

• Developing MoSART Facility at ASU
  • Systems and Controls Provides Unifying Paradigms for Multidisciplinary Education and Research

• Need Tools for Teaching Systems and Controls
  • MATLAB, Toolboxes, Simulink . . . good, but not good enough

• Revolutionary Technologies Exist
  • Desktop computing; e.g. 200 MHz Pentium PROs
  • Global information infrastructure; e.g. WWW
  • OOP languages; e.g. C++, Java, VRML
    • Permits development of interactive animation environments

• Inverted Pendulum can convey fundamental concepts

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