The Mechatronics Control Kit – A complete
Controls Lab in a Single Package.
Designed by Dan Block & Professor Mark W. Spong Professor of
Electrical Engineering and Control Theory (University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign)
Challenges
Four independent challenges provided in one Standalone
Package:
| 1. |
DC motor control experiments
- P and PI speed regulation
- P, PD, PID and Lead angular position regulation. |
| 2. |
Reaction Wheel Inverted Pendulum experiment
- P and PD control of the Pendulum in the stable equilibrium
position
- PD with added set point correction control in the inverted
unstable equilibrium position.
- Full State feedback control in the inverted unstable equilibrium
position.
- Swing Up control algorithms to move the pendulum from the stable
equilibrium to the unstable equilibrium |
| 3. |
Pendubot inverted pendulum experiment.
- Full State feedback control at multiple equilibrium positions.
- Swing Up and balance control to the inverted equilibrium positions |
| 4. |
Rotary inverted pendulum (Furuta) experiment
- Full State feedback control at multiple equilibrium positions.
- Swing Up and balance control to the inverted equilibrium positions |
The Mechatronics Control Kit is ideal for education
and research in real time control. The Kit is a standalone package
that required no external accessories.
The "Mechatronics Control Kit" consists of a 24 VDC motor,
Texas Instruments DSP board, PWM and optical encoders mounted on a
portable base. The four attachments can be mounted independently providing
a very effective, portable and challenging teaching aid.
Difficulty
Undergraduate advanced / Graduate / Research
Accessories:
Control Software
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