Lab for Control Systems

Practical course in Control Systems (BET and IMC)

During the practical course, students will get to know modern tools of control engineering. Using these tools, theoretic knowledge from the lecture is transferred experimental setups in the real world. The following experiments are conducted during the practical part of Control Systems:

• Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) with Matlab/Simulink
• Temperature control of an air gap
• Analysis of conventional controllers
• Modelling and identification of a DC drive
• RPM control of a DC drive

Practical course: State control (BET)

This practical course is project-oriented. All tasks of the control engineering project are carried out almost autonomously. The focus lies on linear and non-linear systems in state-space representation.

Tasks include:

• Initial operation of hard- and software
• Configuration of sensor and actuator interfaces
• Modelling and identification of the closed-loop control system
• Computer-aided design of a state controller
• Controller test via simulation
• Designing a state observer
• Implementation and test of the controller in a real system

Project examples are:

• Controlling a quadrocopter
• Inverted pendulum
• Ball on the Plate
• Ball on the Wheel
• Ball on the Beam
• Automation of tabletop football
• Magnetic Levitation
• Pneumatic Levitation
• Omni-directional robot
• Multi-joint manipulator

Practical course in automation (BMC)

This practical course is part of the elective module “Automation and Robotics” for the degree programme BMC. In the scope of this practical course, the students will learn how to design, implement, and optimise control circuits via Matlab/Simulink. Another focus of the practical course lies on controlling electric drives, which is very important for robotics.