Conference proceeding
A Generic, Hands-On Control System Laboratory
1988 American Control Conference, pp 1600-1605
Jun 1988
Abstract
As the availability of more powerful computers and sophisticated graphics increases, many control laboratory courses tend toward theoretical simulations and away from physical demonstrations to illustrate course topics. This paper describes a generic, hands-on control system laboratory developed at Drexel University that uses control system hardware to investigate various topics in control theory. The lab includes both analog and digital controllers. One of the digital controllers is an IBM AF along with A/D and D/A boards. Three experimental setups use an analog servo motor position controller to demonsrte modeling techniques, sampling, and observer design. A fourth setup involves a three degrees of freedom planar manipulator. The generic laboratory is designed to study a wide variety of processes such as motor control, robotic arm movement, tank water level and temperauture control of a solar energy system.
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Details
- Title
- A Generic, Hands-On Control System Laboratory
- Creators
- Kevin Bonner - Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.Robert Fischl - Drexel UniversityPaul Kalata - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- 1988 American Control Conference, pp 1600-1605
- Conference
- 1988 American Control Conference
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Number of pages
- 1
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Other Identifier
- 991019182646304721