Mechatronics Control Kit

The Mechatronics Control Kit is developed for instruction and research in real-time control and identification,which comes with four ready to assemble plants, a DC-motor, a Pendubot, a Reaction Wheel Pendulum and a Furuta Pendulum. The Mechatronics Control Kit possesses many attractive features for control research and education. Using this kit one can investigate system identification, linear control, nonlinear control, optimal control, learning control, robust and adaptive control, fuzzy logic control, intelligent control, hybrid and switching control, gain scheduling, and other control paradigms. One can program the plants supplied with the kit for position and speed control, friction compensation, swing-up control, balancing, regulation and tracking, identification, gain scheduling, and disturbance rejection to name just a few of the applications.

3D Helicopter System

The 3D Helicopter consists of a base upon which an arm is mounted. The arm carries the helicopter body on one end and a counterweight on the other. The arm can pitch about an “elevation” axis as well as swivel about a vertical (travel) axis. Encoders mounted on these axes allow for measuring the elevation and travel of the arm. The helicopter body is mounted at the end of the arm. The helicopter body is free to swivel about a “pitch” axis. The pitch angle is measured via a third encoder. Two motors with propellers mounted on the helicopter body can generate a force proportional to the voltage applied to themotors. The force generated by the propellers can cause the helicopter body to lift off the ground. The purpose of the experiment to design a controller that allows you to command the helicopter body to a desired elevation and a desired travel rate or position.