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Objective:
Earlier in his career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Mark Spong invented a compact modular system to teach controls. It occurred to him that such a system could make a significant difference to engineering students everywhere, but he lacked the means of getting it to the market.
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Quanser Solution:
In just five years, Quanser has sold score of Mechkit units to universities all around the world. Over the years, Quanser engineers also made a few improvements to make this tool more effective for educators. |
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Objective:
Dr. Patel from the University of Western Ontario was leading a research project incorporating haptics in minimal invasive surgery. Dr. Patel needed not just the technology to advance his research , but also a strong and knowledgeable engineering team to support the technology.
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Quanser Solution:
Quanser's off-the shelf haptic solution – the 5DOF Haptic Wand – and collaboration with Quanser's engineering team allowed Dr. Patel to develop a master-slave haptics-enabled robotic system with the possibility of its commercialization. |
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Originally, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at Milwaukee School of Engineering did not have a laboratory for control systems – the department was using a conventional analog lab, which could not offer students practical real-time knowledge.
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Quanser Solution:
Real-time solutions and integration with Simulink helped convince the department to equip the newly established controls laboratory with Quanser rotary family experiments. |
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Objective:
For the practical side of his Introduction to Robotics course, Professor Wood from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences needed a multiple Degree of Freedom (DOF) robot.
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Quanser Solution:
The turn-key solution provided by Quanser allows users to switch seamlessly between the industrial and an open-architecture controller. Professor Wood’s robotics class can focus on rapid prototyping control and learn control and robotics concepts through implementing the theory. |
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Objective:
Tsenghua University’s Automation Department held a control design competition for its undergrad students, but the organizers struggled to find a right platform that would allow students to focus on control strategies design rather than hardware testing.
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Quanser Solution:
Quanser-presented rapid control prototyping solution, powered by QUARC software, seamlessly integrating with MATLAB/Simulink sped up the competition, excited students and turned the event into a success. |
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Under Dr. Sirouspour’s direction, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University introduced a groundbreaking course in Medical Robotics. But equipment-wise, there was nothing in medical robotics, especially for the undergrad level that they could go directly and buy.
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Quanser Solution:
Quanser engineers and Dr. Sirouspour traded ideas and co-invented a unique lab for this unique course. Quanser also helped compose the curriculum for the experiments. |
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Objective:
Dr. David Wang from University of Waterloo believes that to become successful, his students need to complete real-world projects fast but without compromising their learning.
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Quanser Solution:
QUARC, Quanser’s real-time control software allows students to accelerate design and develop controllers far faster. Therefore they can focus on the important control aspects, learn by thinking through problems and practicing the theory while skipping the tedium – like hand-coding. |
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School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University wanted to give the freshmen, often overloaded with theory, a practical real-world and hands-on application. |
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Quanser Solution:
Quanser’s Shake Table II gives young engineers exciting real-life experience and helps to increase their engagement and retention. |
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University of Cincinnati’s Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics wanted to attract the most promising students and get them excited about controls. |
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Quanser Solution:
Quanser’s Linear and Specialty experiments allow for great variety of control experiments versatile enough to serve also advanced research. They help students recognize the interrelations between controls and other engineering disciplines. |
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Objective:
Professor Krovi from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of State University of New York at Buffalo was looking for a means to quickly physically prototype a yet non-existent 6 DOF motion platform for his latest research. |
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Quanser Solution:
Quanser, using cutting edge, state-of-the-art techniques and cooperating and consulting with Professor Krovi’s team, quickly developed a sturdy and robust device – the Hexapod, featuring 6 DOF parallel kinematics. |
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Objective:
University Consortium on Instructional Shake Tables (UCIST) is using Earthquake simulators to incorporate earthquake engineering into undergraduate civil engineering curriculum. |
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Quanser Solution:
Quanser developed a bench-scale seismic simulator – Shake Table II that enables students to get hands-on experience and develop better understanding of structural dynamics and controls principles. |
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Objective:
In 2002 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Utah State University started to build a lab dedicated to the subject of Mechatronics. |
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Quanser Solution:
Quanser modular and open architecture experiments allowed ECE to build a world-class laboratory incrementally, adding few modules every year, therefore without need of a large funding. |
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Objective:
The Department of Engineering Technology at PVAMU is committed to build state-of-the-art laboratories where students can learn from the exposure to the most recent technology. |
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Quanser Solution:
Various Quanser experiments were part of the successful project submitted for DoD funding and now help to merge teaching and research needs of the faculty. |
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Objective:
Queen's University integrates all undergraduate engineering labs into one place. |
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Quanser Solution:
Several engineering departments find value in sharing modular Quanser rotary experiments. |
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Objective:
Quanser and the University of Toronto work together to improve undergraduate/graduate labs and foster research. |
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Quanser Solution:
Collaboration with the University of Toronto in securing funding for labs, expertise for custom experiments, while supplying expandable and cost-effective equipment for staff and students. |
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Objective:
The University of the West Indies looks to Quanser for updating its undergraduate control lab. |
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Quanser Solution:
While an in-house solution was possible, Quanser's low-cost QET was available immediately - with a full curriculum already in place. |
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