A low-cost control experiment for systems with large time constants and unknown time delays
A prototype that represents the thermal behaviour of a building modelled at reduced scale with a central heating system is described. It is a simple, robust experiment which can be used for a variety of control studies, especially those related with systems that present large time constants and unknown time delays.
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