Abstract:
Control science is one of the most important sciences to understand well, one of the
most important problems facing students at the university is not supporting the
theoretical information with Practical experiments because these experiments are
limited to laboratories due to the difficulty of moving devices from one place to
another place. The purpose of this project is to build an educational control apparatus
that fulfills several requirements as light weight, modularity, and easy to assembly.
Components of the model, its mechanism and applications have been examined to
meet the desired specifications. It was designed to consist of a servo motor, servo
driver, Data acquisition (DAQ) and computer. Programming a controller by
Simulink Matlab and then sends the digital signal to the DAQ to convert a digital
signal to an analog signal, the driver received the signal and provide signal for the
servo motor and the servo motor provides motion for the applications as pendulum,
inverted pendulum, and crank slider. In this graduation project we designed and
constructed the educational apparatus and applied the pendulum application and
document its results. Where Several requirements have been achieved such as light
weight and flexible for applications (can add another applications) while the
apparatus is not portable because we faced many problems to interface between
servo driver and Matlab software.
