Hardware Support

Quanser Lab Workstation Support from Simulink

Hardware experiments, data acquisition cards, and Simulink models for teaching controls, mechatronics, and robotics

You can use Simulink with Quanser lab workstations to implement interactive project-based learning into your control systems and mechatronics curriculum. Using Simulink models with these lab workstations helps students perform up-front explorations before connecting with hardware. This approach teaches how to reduce design iterations and develop control systems easily.

Quanser lab workstations provide mix-and-match components that help you create scalable systems to suit your classroom requirements. With these lab workstations, you can develop long-term, undergraduate classroom instruction or conduct ongoing research at the master level.

Quanser lab workstations encompass:

  • Course materials for teaching control theories with real-life applications
  • Control experiments with linear systems, rotary motion, mechatronics, and robotics for implementing and evaluating feedback using PID, H-infinity, fuzzy, neural network, adaptive, and nonlinear controllers
  • PCI-based or USB-based boards, compatible with MATLAB and Simulink, for data acquisition and control system optimization
  • Voltage and current amplifiers for reliable real-time system performance
  • Quanser QUARC software, integrated with Simulink, for real-time connectivity between Simulink models and Quanser hardware

Using Quanser lab workstations, you can demonstrate a variety of controller implementations such as real-time on Windows, dedicated processor, and distributed control. Using Simulink in external mode, you can tune controller parameters and monitor signals on-the-fly, directly from the Simulink block diagram. Students gain hands-on experience with industry practices such as rapid control prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop testing and simulation.

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