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LT-MC304 2-DOF Ball Balancer
Labtronic offers the 2-DOF Ball Balancer Trainer, a benchtop educational unit designed to teach fundamental and intermediate control principles. It focuses on automatic control using vision-based motion platforms and introduces various control methods. Trainees can use the trainer to explore real-world control challenges, such as managing pan-tilt cameras. The system consists of two Rotary Servo Base Units that support the 2 DOF Ball Balancer, providing hands-on experience in balancing and motion control. This trainer offers practical insights into control systems while demonstrating key concepts in dynamic motion and feedback control.
Learning Objectives:
- Familiarization with unstable closed-loop systems.
- Strengthening fundamental principles of control methods.
- Enhancing modeling topics such as:
- Model derivation
- First-principles derivation
- Transfer function representation
- Linearization
- Learning the PD control method.
- Exploring multiple control loops.
- Demonstration of sensor calibration and actuator usage.
- Applying the one-dimensional Ball and Beam experiment to the X-Y planar case.
- Introduces fundamental and intermediate control principles.
- Demonstrates real-world control issues in vision-based motion platforms, like pan-tilt cameras.
- Consists of a plate connected to two rotary servo base units via 2 DOF gimbals.
- The plate can swivel in any direction.
- Includes:
- Digital camera
- Ball and plate
- Calibration base
- Controlled by two rotary servo base units for X and Y axes.
- Servo load gears adjust the plate angle to balance the ball to a desired position.
- Digital camera tracks ball coordinates in real-time.
- Compatible with MATLAB®/Simulnik®.
- Allows students to apply one-dimensional Ball and Beam concepts to the X-Y planar case.
- Enables tracing of various ball trajectories and stabilization.