Digital control workstation

Author

James, J.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr Eng., US Mil. Acad., West Point, NY

fYear

1988

fDate

22-25 Oct 1988

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

75

Abstract

The digital control lessons and workstation used in the automatic controls course for electrical engineering majors at the United States Military Academy are presented. These digital control lessons culminate with the conversion of a conventional control design for implementation by a digital system. The control system is a lead compensator for a servo trainer configured for position control. Students design lead-lag compensation to achieve phase margin, closed-loop bandwidth and low-frequency gain specifications. The system hardware comprises the following components: an IBM/PC-AC compatible computer, (Zenith Z-248), a PC expansion board that implements the compensator, and a DC servo trainer. A detailed description is given of each of the workstation components and the digital design problem (and solution) that forms the basis for the workstation demonstration

Keywords

computerised control; digital control; education; electrical engineering computing; engineering workstations; teaching; DC servo trainer; IBM/PC-AC compatible computer; PC expansion board; Zenith Z-248; automatic controls course; closed-loop bandwidth; conventional control design; digital control lessons; digital control workstation; digital design problem; electrical engineering majors; lead compensator; lead-lag compensation; low-frequency gain specifications; phase margin; position control; servo trainer; system hardware; workstation components; workstation demonstration; Automatic control; Bandwidth; Control design; Control systems; Digital control; Digital systems; Electrical engineering; Position control; Servomechanisms; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1988., Proceedings

Conference_Location

Santa Barbara, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1988.34958

Filename

34958