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| The control-systems laboratory (CSL) is a multidisciplinary
facility housed within the College of Engineering and Applied Science at
the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Its mission is to support
teaching and research in control-system theory within the Electrical and
Computer Engineering (ECE) and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)
programs.
The lab comprises a number of student and research work centers. Each work center has at least one device to control, which include Educational Control Products' (ECP) Magnetic Levitation and Control-Moment Gyroscope systems and a Rhino Robotics six-degree-of-freedom robotic arm. Each center has a full complement of test-and-measurement equipment. The dynamic devices may be configured to study identification and control of linear or nonlinear, stable or unstable, SISO, collocated SIMO, noncollocated SIMO and full MIMO control. Control is accomplished using Comdyna GP-6 analog computers or a digital computer running the Real Time Linux operating system, via MathWorks' Matlab/ Simulink/ the Real Time Workshop and Quality Real-Time Systems' (QRTS) Real Time Linux Target. The laboratory provides opportunities for undergraduate and graduate student research in all aspects of control systems. The lab supports undergraduate analog and digital control-systems lab courses, and projects in both undergraduate and graduate control-systems courses. For further information on opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, please contact Dr. Gregory Plett at glp@eas.uccs.edu (ECE) or Dr. David Schmidt at dschmidt@brain.uccs.edu (MAE). Funding sources for the CSL have included substantial discounts from ECP, QRTS and Mathworks, as well as a grant from the National Science Foundation.
The following Laboratory Courses use the CSL: ECE4530:
Feedback Control Laboratory. The following Lecture Courses use the CSL for projects: ECE4510:
Feedback Control Systems. The following papers have been written describing the CSL and its implementation: Plett, G., Schmidt, D. ``Multidisciplinary Lab-Based Controls Curriculum,'' Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, CDROM proceedings, June 24-27 2001. Plett, G., Schmidt, D. ``A Multidisciplinary Digital Control-Systems Laboratory,'' Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, CDROM proceedings, June 2002.
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