Realize control theory with ACROME Ball and Beam! Controlling the position of a ball on a beam is one of the conventional problems of the control theory. Ball and Beam plant can be used for a wide range of control system design implementations from basic linear controllers to advance nonlinear methods. Students are able to understand system design approaches with learn-by-doing methodology. They can distinguish effects of linearization, assumptions and modeling errors due to the differences between simulations and real world experiments, all can be seen at the same time.
ACROME myCONTROL COMPATIBLE WITH ENGINEERING PLATFORMS
ACROME Ball and Beam System is a part of ACROME myCONTROL product family and myCONTROL units can be controlled by several software platforms like LabVIEW, MATLAB/Simulink using several embedded control hardware like myRIO and Arduino. These platforms introduce students proven technology and allows them to design real, complex engineering systems quicker than ever before.
CUSTOMIZABLE SOFTWARE with USERFRIENDLY GUI
National Instruments LabVIEW based open source software allows students implementing their own controller designs. Predesigned ball-and-beam model and controllers are ready for performance measurements and observing responses of fundamental controller types. User-friendly GUI includes 3D model of ball-and-beam system and graphical data of real system and predesigned model. Steady-state error for standard test inputs, phase difference and amplitude ratio for sinusoidal inputs can been easily covered due to graphical demonstration for both simulated system and real system.
FEATURES
Ready to control plant with integrated power unit
Suitable for linear and advanced nonlinear control methods
Ball position sensing by a linear potentiometer
Actuating the beam by a RC servo motor, which is familiar to students
Enables students to design their own real-time controllers
Executable of the software is available, if requested.
Open architecture with extensive courseware, suitable for undergraduate courses for engineering disciplines related with control systems
CURRICULUM
Components of Ball and Beam System
* RC Servo Motor
* Potentiometer Sensor
* NI myRIO
* Power Supply Box
* Mechanics of the System
Fundamentals of PWM
* PWM Signaling Theory
* Generating PWM Signals with myRIO
* Driving RC Servos with PWM Signals
Feedback in Control Systems
* Reading Ball Position from Potentiometer Sensor
* Derivative Filtering
System Modeling
* System Identification Methods
* Modeling of Actuator
* Obtaining Transfer Function of Plant
Performance Measures
* Time Domain Characteristics
* Steady State Response and Steady State Error
Control System Design
* Time Response Characteristics
* PID Controller and Fuzzy Logic Controller
* Step Response and Steady-State Error
Control System Verification
* Frequency Response Analysis
* Experimental Bode Diagrams
* Cut-Off Frequency Determination
