Journal of Technical Education Science

Control of Rotary Inverted Pendulum (RIP) is a classic control problem and is considered a benchmark in control theory problems. It represents a broader class of under-actuated systems. Rotary inverted pendulum complex system, widely studied in many areas due to its complexity, nonlinearities and non-minimum-phase system. It relates to a class of real world system such as cart and pole, pendubot, missile launchers, human balance, bipedal robot, metronome and many more. The problems associated with it are always interesting topics in control engineering. This paper presents a back-stepping technique to control this system balancing at a vertical upright position-the unstable equilibrium point. Lyapunov-based back-stepping is proposed for a rotary inverted pendulum in this research. Both the simulation and experimental results on controllers-swing up and balancing- and system responses show the effectiveness of this method. And two methods swing-up will be proposed in this article are Furuta method and exponentiation of the pendulum position method.

Con lắc ngược quay là một mô hình quen thuộc và cơ bản trong lý thuyết điều khiển tự động. Tuy nhiên, giá tiền một mô hình là rất cao, không phù hợp điều kiện trang bị phòng thí nghiệm còn hạn chế ở Việt Nam. Các mô hình được tự chế tạo hiện nay thì không đáp ứng được thông số mô hình, dẫn tới việc áp dụng các giải thuật phụ thuộc vào mô hình không được thiết kế thành công. Bài báo đề xuất chế tạo mô hình con lắc ngược quay giá rẻ và dễ xây dựng cho các phòng thí nghiệm điều khiển trong hoàn cảnh Việt Nam. Mô hình rõ ràng trong cấu trúc, thông số hệ thống. Và khả năng ứng dụng hệ thống để hướng dẫn trong phòng thí nghiệm được chứng minh bằng cách áp dụng xây dựng giải thuật trên mô hình này với việc xây dựng giải thuật-swingup và cân bằng- dựa trên hệ động lực học hệ thống. Sau đó, khảo sát trên các bộ điều khiển và đáp ứng hệ thống sẽ cho thấy hiệu quả của mô hình thực này. Giải thuật cân bằng LQR được lựa chọn và giải thuật swing-up là phương pháp Furuta.

Adsorption kinetics is an essential part in adsorption studies. The pseudo-first-order (PFO) and pseudo-second-order (PSO) models are frequently used to model the experimental dataset of time-dependent adsorption. The differential equations (based on reaction rate and rate law) of the PFO and PSO models are similar to those of chemical reactions (i.e., first and second order-kinetic reactions). The adsorption kinetics is illustrated through the plot of qt (the amount of adsorbate adsorbed by adsorbent at time t) vs. time. This plot includes two important regions (kinetic and equilibrium). The adsorption rate constant (k1(PFO) or k2(PSO), respectively) of the PFO or PSO models needs to be calculated from two regions. The appropriate selection of initial adsorbate concentrations for studying adsorption kinetics should be based on adsorption isotherm to ensure that adsorption sites in adsorbent (material) are highly (nearly fully) covered by adsorbate (solute). Only in this case, the rate constant of the adsorption is accurately obtained.

Corona pandemic has a strong influence on almost all fields all over the world, especially in education. In Vietnam, in the case study of the University of Technology and Education Ho Chi Minh City (HCMUTE), most of the lecturers being responsible for theoretical subjects are required to teach their students online during the outbreak of COVID 19. It is a crucial issue that needs efficiency from online learning. This study aims to evaluate the status and efficiency of online learning at HCMUTE. Altogether 108 students and 25 lecturers participated in the study. The qualitative data collection tool was a questionnaire that has open and closed questions related to the learning environment, the interaction relationships, and learning outcomes. The results show that there is a synchronous learning environment and plenty of digital tools used by most lecturers. About 74 percent of students are satisfied and keen on continuing online learning; a large number of lecturers would like to continue with blended learning. Besides, the study also found out some difficulties that focus on two main issues such as technical issues, and decreasing students’ activeness during online classes. The study also recommends three learning activities design stages that the lecturers can apply for their online teaching to encourage students to active learning. This research extends knowledge of pedagogy and orient the next online course design at UTEx.

Freeze drying is one of the most advanced drying technologies for food processing and preserving using temperature under 0oC or under the freezing point, and pressure of drying chamber environment under 4.58mmHg to process foods. This method helps to maintain the initial quality of proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, vitamins, bioactive substances and sensory activities… In this study, the calculation and design were carried out to find suitable technology parameters to make the freeze drying system in which the freezing process occurred inside the freeze drying chamber. Heat was transferred by short wavelength thermal radiation, l = 50´10-3 m. As a result, time of freeze drying had been shortened to 13.33h/batch. The system was successfully manufactured, showed the steadily working, producing the high quality products, and reduced products price. In the conditions of Vietnam, the freeze drying system replacing that of other countries is the indispensable factor to apply for processing and preserving foods.

E-learning has become a trend in university education around the world. Also, the EMVITET Erasmus+ project in developing Education 4.0 has focused on developing e-learning. This study investigates the effect of critical success factors (CSFs) on e-learning at Da Nang University of Technology and Education (UTE-DN), a member of The University of Danang. Five categories were firstly identified via the literature and a questionnaire using the Likert scale was then carried out to evaluate the importance of each factor from students’ perspective. Analytical results indicated 20 CSFs that influence the success of e-learning. Internet quality, self-efficacy, content quality of the lectures, enthusiasm while teaching, and accessible and up-to-date learning materials are the top five influential factors that impact e-learning success. This study, thus, supports leaders and teachers at UTE-DN in making decisions and strategies about e-learning.

The aim of this article is to describe the direct and potential impacts Erasmus+ Capacity Building Higher Education (CBHE) - Project called “Empowering Vietnamese VET teachers for transformation towards Education 4.0” (EMVITET)- after one year of implementation. Additionally, the survey findings also summarized the institutional and teachers’ personal experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic, which pushed Vietnamese institutions to rapidly transform their education to online environments. Qualitative data were collected with online questionnaires from six partner institutions and 35 teacher participants. The findings indicate that both individual teacher participants and partner institutions were given a boost to improve Education 4.0 competencies thanks to the participatory and collaborative approach of the EMVITET- project. The project was perceived as an useful external source for supporting the institutions’ management in organizing demanding online education during Covid-19 pandemic.

Online teaching or e-learning allows learners to participate in a virtual classroom environment based on web and based on digital applications or digital tools, to interact with learning content and (possibly) with teacher and other peers from a long distance to achieve learning goals defined by their learning needs. The article provides some theoretical backgrounds of online teaching related to the advantages and limitations of online teaching, the forms of online teaching (synchronous learning, asynchronous learning, blended learning), structure of implementing an online course supporting dialogical and deep learning. The article also shares the experiences of Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education (HCMUTE) in implementing online teaching, especially asynchronous teaching on learning management systems (LMS, FHQLMS) and gives some recommendations for lecturers to improve the quality of organizing online courses. Based on the theoretical analysis method with the literature review and the synthesis of practical education experience from HCMUTE, a four-step and 5W-1H online course design process is suggested

This paper presents a nonlinear controller with dynamic compensation for six degrees of freedom (6-DOF) manipulator Denso VS-6556 in practice. The manipulator is a complex nonlinear system with some limitations when applying a linear controller to control it. The nonlinear controller combines proportional derivative, and dynamic compensation is established to deal with this problem. The PD control is a linear controller, and dynamic compensation can cancel the nonlinear parts in the system. Therefore, the tracking problem is expected to result in a good performance. The stability and resilience of the entire system are examined using a Lyapunov technique. The test bench is built to ensure the conditions for experimentation; it includes card PCI QUAD04s, NI PCI-6713, industrial computer 610H Advantage, and MATLAB/Simulink in practice. Finally, the suggested control is subjected to the 6-DOF manipulator Denso 6556 and compared with the PD control to verify the effectiveness of the controller.

This study investigates the effect of Hot Side Heatsink (HSH) and Cool Side Heatsink (CSH) on the temperature of the hot and cool side and output power of the Thermoelectric Generator Unit (TGU). The structure of the HSH and the CSH is designed and manufactured based on the results of calculating the heat transfer through the TGU with Matlab Script and simulation with ANSYS software. The TGU consists of 08 TEP1-142T300 ThermoElectric Generator (TEG) modules connected in series and use heat from the exhaust gas of the Suzuki Sapphire 125 engine was conducted in the range of speed from 20km/h to 60km/h. The results show that increasing the number of fins of HSH and CSH leads to the increase of output power of the TGU. The output powers between test cases are significantly different when the vehicle speed increases. The output power of the TGU can reach about 1.1W at 20km/h, and 14.1W at 60km/h. The temperature ​​of the hot side and cool side of the TGU obtained from the calculation, simulation and experiment are very different. This difference is due to the quality of the material, the surface roughness and the dust, dirty of the HSH and CSH cause significant differences between the practical and theoretical. This study has important implications, as a basis for (1) calculating and estimating the actual thermal conductivity of the material of HSH and CSH; and (2) optimizing calculation the structure of the HSH and CSH to enhance the capacity and durability of the TGU.