Multidisciplinary Lab-Based Undergraduate Controls Curriculum

工程-电气(55)这个项目正在科罗拉多大学斯普林斯分校工程与应用科学学院内建立和改革一门跨学科的、以实验室为基础的本科生控制课程。该实验室的主要关注点之一是它是一个多学科设施。这是电气和计算机工程(欧洲经委会)和机械和航空航天工程(MAE)的学生共享的。这与伊利诺伊大学香槟分校杰出的控制系统实验室在主题上相似。本实验的另一个主要关注点是包括要控制的物理设备。这些想法是从丹尼斯·S·伯恩斯坦的一篇论文中改编而来的，他在论文中描述了密歇根大学安娜堡分校的控制系统实验室，以及物理实验的必要性和要控制的设备。该实验室正被纳入另外四门初级和高级控制课程的课程。这些课程教授经典的模拟和数字控制方法，以及现代多变量模拟和数字控制方法。特别是，数字控制课程被重新设计，主要以实验室为基础。本控制系统实验室由四个工作中心组成。这些中心用于研究“磁悬浮”、“控制力矩陀螺仪”和“柔性梁”动力学机构的控制。这些装置用于研究线性或非线性、单变量或多变量、最小相位或非最小相位系统的控制。该实验室被两门控制课程使用，这两门课程分别教授经典的模拟和数字控制方法。随着学生现在能够控制物理设备(而不仅仅是模拟表演)，学习得到了极大的提高。遇到意想不到的干扰和未建模的动态，因此学生被迫设计一个在实际实施中能够正常工作的控制器。对这两门实验室课程的课程进行了重新设计，以纳入每周广泛的实验和使用为该项目购买的设备进行设计的项目。

Engineering - Electrical (55)This project is establishing and reforming a cross-disciplinary, lab-based, undergraduate control curriculum within the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. One of the main focuses of the lab is that it be a multidisciplinary facility. It is shared by the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) students. This is similar in theme to the outstanding control-systems laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Another main focus of this lab is that it include physical devices to control. The ideas are being adapted from a paper by Dennis S. Bernstein, where he describes the control-systems laboratory at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the necessity of physical experiments, and devices to be controlled. The laboratory is being incorporated into the curricula of four additional junior and senior level control courses. These courses teach classical analog and digital control methods, and modern multi-variable analog and digital control methods. The digital control courses, in particular, are redesigned to be heavily lab-based. Laboratory experiments and demonstrations are designed for the other courses as well.This control systems laboratory is comprised of four work centers. These centers are used to study control of "magnetic Levitation," "Control-Moment Gyroscope" and "Flexible Beam" dynamic mechanism. These devices are configured to study control of liner or non-linear, single-variable or multi-variable, minimum-phase or nonminimum-phase systems. The lab is being used by two control courses which teach classical analog and digital control methods, respectively. Learning is greatly enhanced as the students are now be able to control a physical apparatus (rather than just simulate performance). Unexpected disturbances and unmodeled dynamics are encountered, and so the students are forced to design a controller that will work acceptably in a real implementation. The curricula for these two laboratory courses are redesigned to incorporate extensive weekly experiments and design projects using the equipment purchased for this project.