Dynamic Systems and Controls Laboratory

这项提议是为了在德克萨斯大学泛美分校建立一种新形式的动态系统和控制实验室的设备，供本科生在其电气、机械和制造工程专业使用。该实验室的主要目标是培养学生的多学科思维，使他们熟悉以模型为基础、以仿真为导向的控制系统设计和开发方法，让他们获得基于DSP的控制器实施所需的实际设备的经验(在大多数工程专业的本科水平上通常不是这样做的)，并在教育和工业硬件上实际演示他们实施的控制器，例如倒立摆、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性，而且具有现实性(与预打包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这些学生毕业后有望受雇的公司广泛使用。所要求的设备将在其他方面对该大学的工程专业有所裨益。首先，它将有助于增加几个现有课程的设计部分，并使至少一门新课程成为可能。其次，通过实际和视频演示更令人兴奋的实验以及在网络上传播，它将帮助我们努力激励在校学生，并通过让他们更好地了解工程师在一个日益由技术驱动的社会中可以帮助实现的目标，从该地区招收学生(其中大多数是西班牙裔和潜在的第一代大学生)。最后，我们还认为，这项建议可以并将为其他学校提供一个改进的模式，说明动态系统和控制实验室应该是什么。

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.