Industrial Emulator

The ECP Industrial Emulator is an ideal tool to teach practical control of modern industrial equipment such as spindle drives, turntables, conveyors, machine tools, and automated assembly machines. Such plants are readily emulated using the many available configurations of the apparatus. Not only does the system have adjustable dynamic parameters, but also it is able to emulate non-ideal properties in the system such as backlash, flexibility and coulomb friction that often occur in the real industrial equipment due to equipment wear and aging.

Control Moment Gyroscope

The laboratory is equipped with an ECP gyroscope apparatus having a total of 4 degrees of freedom. This system is a complex example of dynamical system that provides students with challenging tasks such as the derivation of its equations of motion and appropriate control strategy to be implemented into the system. Students and researchers may find that this system offers a great experience to explore the behavior of the system through hands-on experimentation.

Magnetic Levitator

The laboratory also houses an ECP magnetic levitator apparatus with dual levitators. The system has two moving plungers (strong permanent magnets) that can be controlled by two solenoid actuators. The levitator is an example of an electromechanical system that requires a modeling on each mechanical and electrical domain. The coupling between the two domains is via magnetic domain. Due to its practicality, the modeling is often based on empirical approach than its analytical approach. The analytical system modeling approach is usually complex and requires a profound physics understanding in magnetic coupling.