BYOE: Affordable and Portable Laboratory Kit for Controls Courses

Reck, Rebecca M.

doi:10.18260/p.23653

Cited by 12 publications

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“…During six of the fifteen weeks in a semester, students spend two hours in the laboratory completing six different experiments [25]. The experiments with the new kit and existing equipment are compared in Table 2.…”

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confidence: 99%

Developing an Affordable and Portable Control Systems Laboratory Kit with a Raspberry Pi

Reck

Sreenivas

2016

Electronics

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Instructional laboratories are common in engineering programs. Instructional laboratories should evolve with technology and support the changes in higher education, like the increased popularity of online courses. In this study, an affordable and portable laboratory kit was designed to replace the expensive on-campus equipment for two control systems courses. The complete kit costs under $135 and weighs under 0.68 kilograms. It is comprised of off-the-shelf components (e.g., Raspberry Pi, DC motor) and 3D printed parts. The kit has two different configurations. The first (base) configuration is a DC motor system with a position and speed sensor. The second configuration adds a Furuta inverted pendulum attachment with another position sensor. These configurations replicate most of the student learning outcomes for the two control systems courses for which they were designed.

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confidence: 99%

Developing an Affordable and Portable Control Systems Laboratory Kit with a Raspberry Pi

Reck

Sreenivas

2016

Electronics

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“…Physical experiments have been shown to have significant pedagogical value 3,4,5,6,7 . The equipment costs, space requirements, and other challenges of university-owned control laboratories has sparked considerable interest in student-owned control experiments 8,9,10 . The focus on student-owned control experiments has lead to many novel platforms such a small robotic vehicle with a custom micro-controller board 11 and a 3D printed experiment for balancing a ball on a plate 12 .…”

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Teaching Dynamic Systems and Control without Dynamics

Krauss¹,

Ali²,

Lenz³

2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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“…However, some approaches to real-time feedback control experiments require custom hardware and/or software and can be quite expensive. The cost of maintaining on-campus feedback control laboratories has sparked an interested in low-cost experiments that can potentially be student owned [9,10,11].…”

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Combining Course Flipping and a Low-Cost Experiment to Teach Frequency Response

Krauss

2018 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Dr. Krauss received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech in 2006. His research interests include modeling and control design for flexible robots, feedback control, and microcontroller-based implementation of feedback control systems. In addition to the freshmen introduction to engineering design course, he has taught courses in mechatronics, controls, vibrations, dynamics and robotics as well as senior design.

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BYOE: Affordable and Portable Laboratory Kit for Controls Courses

Cited by 12 publications

References 6 publications

Developing an Affordable and Portable Control Systems Laboratory Kit with a Raspberry Pi

Developing an Affordable and Portable Control Systems Laboratory Kit with a Raspberry Pi

Teaching Dynamic Systems and Control without Dynamics

Combining Course Flipping and a Low-Cost Experiment to Teach Frequency Response

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