Modular Control Laboratory System with Integrated Simulation, Animation, Emulation, and Experimental Components

Abstract

A typical sequence for the design of a controller, given the desired objectives, is the following: system modeling, design and mathematical analysis, simulation studies, emulation, and experimental implementation. Most control courses thoroughly cover design and mathematical analysis and utilize a simulation or experimental project at the end of the course. However, animation and emulation are seldom utilized and projects rarely cover the entire controller design sequence. This paper presents a control laboratory system developed at the University of Missouri at Rolla that integrates simulation, animation, emulation, and experimental components. the laboratory system may be applied to a wide variety of conntrols courses, from undergraduate to graduate. in addition to the simulation and experimental studies, students utilize animation and emulation components. Animation allows the students to visualize, as well as validate, their controllers during the simulation design phase, and emulation allows students to debug their programs on the target processor before experimentally implementing their controllers. Two experiments are presented to demonstrate the modular control laboratory system. © 2005 TEMPUS Publications.

Department(s)

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0949-149X

Document Type

Article - Journal

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Citation

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text

Language(s)

English

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© 2024 Tempus Publications, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

19 Dec 2005

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