Overview

The module consists of a rotating disk mounted inside a frame. The disk is actuated about its center through a DC motor. An internal frame holds the rotating disk and is attached to an external frame through two shafts at both ends. A gear mechanism is connected between one of these end shafts and an encoder measures the angle of the blue frame as it rotates about the shafts, i.e., it measures the disc tilt angle. The Rotary Servo Base Unit is mounted on a 2-plate structure and is free to rotate. This allows the gyroscope structure to be manually rotated relative to a fixed surface in order to simulate external disturbance to the gyroscope system.

  • Gyro/Stable Platform module easily attaches to the Rotary Servo Base Unit
  • Rotary Servo Base Unit mounted on a rotatable two-plate structure to simulate disturbance
  • Large inertial disc is actuated by a DC motor
  • High-resolution encoder measures the disc tilt angle
Modeling Topics
  • First-principles derivation
  • Transfer function representation
Control Topics
  • Observer design
  • PID

The following additional components are required to complete your workstation, and are sold separately:
Rotary Servo Base Unit with Gyro/Stable Platform module
Quanser VoltPAQ-X1

MATLAB Simulink
  • QUARC® add-on for MATLAB®/Simulink®
  • Quanser Q2-USB, Q8-USB, QPID/QPIDe
LabVIEW
  • Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) Toolkit® add-on for NI LabVIEW™
  • NI CompactRIO with Quanser Q1-cRIO or
  • NI myRIO with Quanser myRIO Terminal Board

For Simulink

  • QUARC® add-on for MATLAB®/Simulink®
  • Rotary Servo Base Unit
  • Quanser VoltPAQ-X1 linear voltage amplifier
  • One of the following DAQ devices:
    • Quanser Q2-USB
    • Quanser Q8-USB
    • Quanser QPIDe

For LabVIEW

  • Quanser Rapid Control Prototyping (Q-RCP) Toolkit® add-on for NI LabVIEW™
  • Rotary Servo Base Unit
  • Quanser VoltPAQ-X1 linear voltage amplifier
  • One of the following DAQ devices:
    • NI CompactRIO with Quanser Q1-cRIO
    • NI myRIO with Quanser Terminal Board
    • Quanser Q2-USB
    • Quanser Q8-USB
    • Quanser QPIDe

Product Details

Motor current-torque constant 0.02 N.m/A
Motor armature resistance 5.3 Ω
Motor armature inductance 0.580 mH
Motor nominal input voltage 12 V
Armature inertia 1.4 x 10-6 kg.m²
Operating current 0.23 A
Flywheel radius 0.0508 m
Flywheel mass 0.8 kg
Flywheel inertia about spin axis 1.0323 kg.m²
Gyro module inertia about input axis 0.002 kg.m²
Spring stiffness 1.9089 x 10³ N/m

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