Thursday, December 9, 2021 10 AM EST (UTC/GMT-5) The Quanser AERO system is a reconfigurable benchtop flight dynamic experiment that presents a unique set of challenges. The AERO 1 DOF pitch-only system is second order, and the rotors have their...
The Quanser Rotary Flexible Link, is a two-degree of freedom system with an actuated rotary servo and a flexible link. It emulates various real-world applications such as lightweight robot manipulators (e.g., in space applications) and cantilever beams. Pictured below, it...
As with most companies, the last two years have been an unusual one for the Quanser production team. The team has always been a very close group of people. Up until the pandemic we were a very social group whose...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021 11 AM EST (UTC/GMT-5) This talk presents a tuning method for PID controllers based on their equivalence with a PD control law based on Ohnishi’s Disturbance Observer (DOb), which is designed for servo system. The equivalence...
Back in 2012 when I was a graduate student at the University of Toronto, I was evaluating the performance of a gait transition scheme for a quadruped robot. An artificial neural network created trajectories in real-time, responding to gait changes...
Thursday, October 28, 2021 10 AM EDT (UTC/GMT-4) Modern mechatronic systems are complex and interconnected requiring interdisciplinary teams with the experience, intuition, and broad system-level thinking required to solve the complex engineering challenges that are increasingly common in both research...
