Dynamic Systems and Controls Laboratory

动态系统与控制实验室

• 批准号: 9750757
• 负责人: Billy Diong
• 金额: $ 5.23万
• 依托单位: The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-08-01 至 1999-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9750757&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dynamic; Systems; Controls; Laboratory

This proposal is for equipment to establish a novel form of Dynamic Systems and Controls Laboratory at the University of Texas - Pan American to be used by undergraduates in its Electrical, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering programs. The main objectives of this Laboratory are to prepare students to be multidisciplinary in their thinking, to familiarize them with a model-based simulation-oriented approach to control systems design and development, to let them gain experience with the actual equipment needed for DSP-based controller implementation (typically not done at the undergraduate level in most Engineering programs) and to physically demonstrate their implemented controllers on educational and industrial hardware, such as inverted pendulums, mechanical linkages and simple robots. We plan to achieve these goals by using hardware and software that are not only educational but also realistic (when compared to pre-packaged and proprietary educational control systems), since most of the same equipment requested in this proposal are being widely used in the companies where these students can expect to be employed upon graduation. The requested equipment will benefit this University's Engineering program in other ways. Firstly, it will help to increase the design component of several existing courses and make possible at least one new course. Secondly, via actual and videotape demonstrations of the more 'exciting' experiments as well as dissemination on the Web, it will assist in our efforts to motivate enrolled students as well as to recruit students from this region (the majority of whom are Hispanic and potential first-generation college students) by giving them a better idea of what engineers can help accomplish in an increasingly technology-driven society. Finally, we also believe that this proposal can and will serve as an improved model for other schools of what a Dynamic Systems and Controls Laboratory should be.

该提案是为设备建立一个新的形式的动态系统和控制实验室在得克萨斯大学-泛美大学的本科生在其电气，机械和制造工程计划使用。 该实验室的主要目标是让学生具备多学科思维能力，让他们熟悉基于模型、面向仿真的控制系统设计和开发方法，让他们获得基于DSP的控制器实现所需的实际设备的经验（通常在大多数工程项目中不会在本科阶段完成）并在教育和工业硬件上实际演示他们实现的控制器，例如倒置的机器人、机械连杆和简单的机器人。我们计划通过使用硬件和软件来实现这些目标，这些硬件和软件不仅具有教育意义，而且也是现实的（与预先包装和专有的教育控制系统相比），因为本提案中要求的大多数相同设备正在广泛用于这些学生毕业后可以就业的公司。 所要求的设备将有利于这所大学的工程计划在其他方面。首先，它将有助于增加几个现有课程的设计部分，并使至少一个新课程成为可能。其次，通过实际和录像带演示更“令人兴奋的”实验，以及在网络上传播，它将有助于我们努力激励注册学生，以及从这个地区招募学生（其中大多数是西班牙裔和潜在的第一代大学生），让他们更好地了解工程师可以帮助完成在一个日益技术驱动的社会。 最后，我们也相信，这一建议可以并将作为一个改进的模型，为其他学校的动态系统和控制实验室应该是什么。