The Mechatronics Control Kit for education and research

Author

Spong, Mark W. ; Block, Daniel J. ; Åström, Karl J.

Author_Institution

Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

105

Lastpage

110

Abstract

We discuss the use of the Mechatronics Control Kit from Mechatronic Systems, Inc. for control education and research. The Mechatronics Control Kit can be configured with several distinct plants, including a simple DC motor, an inertia wheel pendulum and a Pendubot. The digital electronics are fully integrated and include a Texas Instruments DSP development system, the TMS320C6711 DSK Board (a DSP board with parallel port interface), a PWM output/optical encoder input data acquisition daughter board, a PWM amplifier, and power supplies. We discuss the hardware and software interface and outline a set of experiments that can be performed using this system

Keywords

compensation; control engineering education; digital control; friction; mechanical variables control; mechatronics; robots; velocity control; DSP board; Mechatronic Systems Inc; Mechatronics Control Kit; PWM amplifier; PWM output/optical encoder input data acquisition daughter board; Pendubot; TMS320C6711 DSK Board; Texas Instruments DSP development system; control education; control research; digital electronics; inertia wheel pendulum; Control systems; DC motors; Data acquisition; Digital signal processing; Instruments; Integrated optics; Mechatronics; Pulse width modulation; Stimulated emission; Wheels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Applications, 2001. (CCA '01). Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Mexico City

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6733-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCA.2001.973846

Filename

973846