Control Systems & Dynamics

Control Systems play a pivotal role in the precise regulation of numerous processes in complex machines deployed in every stage of modern industry. With broad applicability and impact on operational consistency, optimization, safety, as well as adaptability to uncertainties, control systems are an aspect of automation and intelligence that are central to every engineering discipline.

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About This Lab

The Quanser Controls and Dynamics Lab Collection is the culmination of our decades of experience working with academic programs worldwide to develop exciting learning experiences and cutting-edge research. The lab is a complete collection of teaching and research platforms, software, resources, and digital twins that can take a controls lab from an empty room to a fully commissioned lab in hours instead of weeks or months.

Our approach to Controls education focuses on the development of broad fundamentals as well as skills in applying those fundamentals to application contexts. This education experience involves deploying control systems to a variety of SISO, SIMO and MIMO systems from aerospace, robotics, mechatronics and autonomous systems.

The provided curriculum includes over 40 labs covering a range of topics from modeling techniques (step response, frequency response, block diagram, state-space, etc.), system characterization and parameter estimation, hardware interfacing, position and speed control, stability analysis, qualitative and quantitative P/PD/PI/PID control, energy control, state-feedback control, gain scheduling and more.

Apply common modeling techniques to a variety of SISO, SIMO and MIMO systems
Gain broad engineering literacy in the characterization and performance of plants and controllers
Walk through a complete controls pipeline from plant modeling, sys ID, control design and hardware deployment
Contrast and analyze the performance of modern control methods, such as PID, state-feedback, MPC, etc.

Control Systems Engineering by N. S. Nise
Feedback Systems by K. J. Astrom, R. M. Murray
Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems by G. F. Franklin, J. D. Powerll and A. Emami-Naei
Modern Control Engineering by K. Ogat
Automatic Control Systems by F. Golnaraghi and B. C. Kuo

These institutions across the world have invested in our Controls & Dynamics curriculum.