World-renown Quanser Turnkey Control Laboratories attract the top-quality students to your courses; motivate them with dependable plant design, clear courseware and easy-to-use tools; which in turn ensures that they graduate from your courses with superior experiences and better grading for themselves and you. Quanser controls laboratories have been designed to provide the academic community with easy-to-install and cost-effective building blocks that can be used for multiple applications and expanded upon for increasing complexity.

Quanser Turnkey Control Laboratories come complete with all of the hardware and software required for taking your existing department’s PC equipment and licenses and turning them into a superior controls teaching environment. The common components of these laboratories are Quarc real-time controls prototyping software, and either the Q3-ControlPaQ-FW, Quanser’s portable and compact combined real-time controls board and amplifier solution, or Quanser’s integrated Q4 or Q8 real-time PCI control boards, and together with Quanser’s Power Amplifiers. Quanser’s open-architecture and modular philosophy means that our laboratories support other combinations of hardware and software from other manufacturers as well. This base provides the support for over 50 Quanser designed control experiments from the basic servo unit to highly complex and unstable systems.

Quanser Turnkey Control Laboratories are fully integrated with your choice of LabVIEW and/or MATLAB/Simulink as well as supporting Maplesoft products. These tools provide a natural migration from theory to practice. The core Quanser ranges of experiments (Linear (IP02) and Rotary (SRV02)) which are supported with our new Quarc and Q3-ControlPaQ-FW system are modular in design as well, which allow you to add multiple modules onto the base experiments. Hence  your students are provided with many more interesting control challenges than can be derived from fixed, single-function experiments. This modularity means that the basic building blocks (software, hardware & power amplifiers, and base experiments SRV02 or IP02) can be used time and time again – thus saving your University thousands of dollars now and in the future.

In addition, all Quanser Laboratories come with course curriculum, sample controllers, optional on-site installation, and the support of a company devoted to the advancement of real-time control research and education. Our experimental equipment, real-time controls boards and real-time software are designed to provide you with all that you need to teach truly effective and exciting control laboratories. Quanser Turnkey Control Laboratories are a managed teaching solution that allow the professor to concentrate on what matters most to them (such as teaching and research) rather than dealing with the heavy and frustrating burden to write world-class courseware, supervise the student design of equipment over several semesters, and maintaining that same equipment once those students are long gone.

Strongly consider contacting our Academic Sales Representatives or Global Agents now as part of your own advanced career planning process, and for your future students. For examples of successful installations, visit our Customer Stories page…