Integrated Engineering Systems and Controls Laboratory

综合工程系统与控制实验室

• 批准号: 9650187
• 负责人: Peter Young
• 金额: $ 9万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-07-15 至 1998-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9650187&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrated; Engineering; Systems; Controls; Laboratory

This project initiates an undergraduate systems and controls laboratory, which will be utilized by the Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical and Bioresource, and Civil Engineering Departments. It is well recognized that classroom exercises or computer simulations alone are not sufficient to develop the critical-thinking and problem-solving skills students need. The intent of this project is to address these issues with the use of a multidisciplinary laboratory, built around a central systems and controls theme and running in conjunction with the appropriate courses in each department. The students learn how to combine knowledge from various parts of the curriculum and apply that knowledge to achieve a desired engineering goal. The laboratory is equipped with experiments in the following areas: core controls experiments, illustrating fundamentals of systems and control theory on typically encountered problems such as mass/spring/damper systems and servomechanisms; electrical emphasis, facilitating more detailed study of electromechanical control problems, including DC and AC machines controlled by thyristors, pulse width modulation, and variable frequency drives; chemical and bioresource emphasis, allowing study of fluid flow and heat transfer, together with autotuning, and adaptive control on a model chemical process rig; and mechanical emphasis, involving the study of hybrid/supervisory control, and how to integrate machines (with appropriate cross-communication) to perform high-level tasks, using a robotics and automated manufacturing workstation. The experiments use control problems commonly encountered in industry and modern real-time control and instrumentation strategies, with each experiment driven from a PC with data acquisition capabilities and virtual instrumentation software. This setup enables students to gain experience on realistic projects and develop practical design skills that are up to date.

该项目启动了本科系统并控制实验室，该实验室将由电气，机械，化学和生物资源以及土木工程部门使用。众所周知，仅凭课堂练习或计算机模拟就不足以发展学生所需的批判性思维和解决问题的技能。该项目的目的是通过使用多学科实验室来解决这些问题，该实验室围绕中央系统构建，控制主题并与每个部门的适当课程一起运行。学生学习如何结合课程各个部分的知识，并应用这些知识来实现​​所需的工程目标。 该实验室配备了以下领域的实验：核心控制实验，说明了系统的基本原理和控制理论，这些理论通常会遇到诸如质量/春季/阻尼器系统和伺服机制等问题；电力重点，促进对机电控制问题的更详细的研究，包括由晶闸管控制的DC和AC机器，脉冲宽度调制和可变频率驱动器；化学和生物库的重点，允许研究流体流量和传热，以及自动调节，并在模型化学过程钻机上进行自适应控制；和机械重点，涉及混合/监督控制的研究，以及如何使用机器人技术和自动化的制造工作站整合机器（具有适当的交叉通信）以执行高级任务。 该实验使用的是在行业和现代实时控制和仪器策略中通常遇到的控制问题，每个实验都从具有数据采集功能和虚拟仪器软件的PC驱动。这种设置使学生能够在现实项目上获得经验，并发展最新的实用设计技能。