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At-Home System and Controls Laboratories

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Conference

2005 Annual Conference

Location

Portland, Oregon

Publication Date

June 12, 2005

Start Date

June 12, 2005

End Date

June 15, 2005

ISSN

2153-5965

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Page Count

10

Page Numbers

10.237.1 - 10.237.10

DOI

10.18260/1-2--15079

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/15079

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591

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Perry Li

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David Waletzko

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William Durfee

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Abstract

We are piloting the concept of distributed laboratories in the form of kits that students take home and work on much like a problem set. The kits have an embedded microcontroller and communicate to the student’s home PC over a serial port. The home PC provides the needed computational horsepower for experiment control, data collection, data analysis and reporting. The microcontroller handles real-time control tasks. Two kits have been developed, a fourth- order, linear mass-spring-damper system for frequency response and system identification, and an analog filtering system that uses music and synthetic sound as an input. Based on the experiences with and evaluation of the first generation modules, an improved second generation module that adds PID control is under development.

Li, P., & Waletzko, D., & Durfee, W. (2005, June), At-Home System and Controls Laboratories Paper presented at 2005 Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2--15079

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