Project specification
Computer control of a DC motor with a flexible joint
Background
Electrical motors are the most important industrial actuators without them there is hardly anything that moves in a modern factory apart from human beings. This project studies computer control of a DC motor with a flexible joint.
Project aim
The aim is to develop a computer controller using the Hilink-DC motor system for laboratory experiments of computer control.
Outcomes
• Complete a literature survey on computer control of DC motor with a flexible joint and related applications.
• Summarise and evaluate the technologies for this project including the state-of-the-art technology.
• Design and simulate a low cost and mobile test bed for the Hilink DC motor with a flexible joint for a computer control laboratory.
• Develop a labWare like 3) for the subject of computer control.
• You are encouraged to bring your own idea and innovation into this project and will be rewarded if improvement can be demonstrated.
References:
• http://zeltom.com/products/hilink
• Chris Mehr, A DC Motor Control System for the Control Laboratory, ECTE457 thesis, 2012
• Interactive control laboratory notes http://secte1.elec.uow.edu.au/hilinklab/
• Handout of ECTE953/441/841/941 Project
• Fuzzy Control, Addison-Wesley K.M. Passina and S. Yurkovich, Free online book at http://www.ece.osu.edu/~passino/FCbook.pdf
• Zekun Wang, Intelligent of a DC motor with a nonlinear load, UOW ECTE458 Thesis, 2018