Integrated Engineering Systems and Controls Laboratory

综合工程系统与控制实验室

• 批准号: 9650187
• 负责人: Peter Young
• 金额: $ 9万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-07-15 至 1998-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9650187&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrated; Engineering; Systems; Controls; Laboratory

This project initiates an undergraduate systems and controls laboratory, which will be utilized by the Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical and Bioresource, and Civil Engineering Departments. It is well recognized that classroom exercises or computer simulations alone are not sufficient to develop the critical-thinking and problem-solving skills students need. The intent of this project is to address these issues with the use of a multidisciplinary laboratory, built around a central systems and controls theme and running in conjunction with the appropriate courses in each department. The students learn how to combine knowledge from various parts of the curriculum and apply that knowledge to achieve a desired engineering goal. The laboratory is equipped with experiments in the following areas: core controls experiments, illustrating fundamentals of systems and control theory on typically encountered problems such as mass/spring/damper systems and servomechanisms; electrical emphasis, facilitating more detailed study of electromechanical control problems, including DC and AC machines controlled by thyristors, pulse width modulation, and variable frequency drives; chemical and bioresource emphasis, allowing study of fluid flow and heat transfer, together with autotuning, and adaptive control on a model chemical process rig; and mechanical emphasis, involving the study of hybrid/supervisory control, and how to integrate machines (with appropriate cross-communication) to perform high-level tasks, using a robotics and automated manufacturing workstation. The experiments use control problems commonly encountered in industry and modern real-time control and instrumentation strategies, with each experiment driven from a PC with data acquisition capabilities and virtual instrumentation software. This setup enables students to gain experience on realistic projects and develop practical design skills that are up to date.

该项目启动了一个本科生系统和控制实验室，将由电气，机械，化学和生物资源，土木工程部门使用。众所周知，单靠课堂练习或计算机模拟不足以培养学生所需的批判性思维和解决问题的能力。该项目的目的是利用多学科实验室解决这些问题，该实验室围绕中央系统和控制主题建立，并与每个部门的适当课程一起运行。学生学习如何将课程各部分的联合收割机知识结合起来，并应用这些知识来实现预期的工程目标。 该实验室配备了以下领域的实验：核心控制实验，说明系统的基本原理和控制理论的典型遇到的问题，如质量/弹簧/阻尼器系统和伺服机构;电气重点，促进更详细的研究机电控制问题，包括直流和交流电机控制的晶闸管，脉宽调制，和变频驱动器;化学和生物资源的重点，允许研究流体流动和传热，以及自动调整和模型化学过程钻机的自适应控制;和机械的重点，包括混合/监督控制的研究，以及如何整合机器（通过适当的交叉通信）使用机器人技术和自动化制造工作站执行高级任务。 实验使用工业和现代实时控制和仪器策略中常见的控制问题，每个实验都由具有数据采集功能和虚拟仪器软件的PC驱动。这种设置使学生能够获得现实项目的经验，并发展最新的实用设计技能。