A software platform for implementing digital control experiments on the Quanser DC motor control trainer

Author

Engle, Benjamin J. ; Watkins, John M.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Wichita State Univ., Wichita, KS

fYear

2008

fDate

3-5 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

510

Lastpage

515

Abstract

This paper describes a system that allows students studying digital control to quickly implement and test digital controller designs. Toward this goal custom C code was written for the PIC microcontroller installed on Quanserpsilas DC Motor Control Trainer. A MATLAB graphical user interface was created that allows for simple interaction with the microcontroller for the purposes of testing the controller performance. Examples that implement Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) angular position and Proportional-Integral (PI) angular rate controllers are presented.

Keywords

DC motors; PI control; computer aided instruction; control engineering computing; control system synthesis; digital control; electric machine analysis computing; graphical user interfaces; machine control; microcontrollers; power engineering education; three-term control; Matlab graphical user interface; PI angular rate controller; PIC microcontroller; PID angular position; Quanser DC motor control trainer; digital control experiment; digital controller design; software platform; Control systems; DC motors; Digital control; Graphical user interfaces; MATLAB; Microcontrollers; Pi control; Proportional control; System testing; Three-term control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Applications, 2008. CCA 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2222-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2223-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCA.2008.4629669

Filename

4629669