Mechatronic Sensors Trainer
Empower your students with industry-relevant mechatronics design skills, and accelerate project-based learning
The Mechatronic Sensors Trainer is an innovative sensors teaching solution for use in your mechatronics courses.
The compact device includes a rich suite of distance, motion, environmental, light, force, and touch sensors, allowing your students to not only learn the fundamental workings of these sensors, but also develop key skills in component selection and making design decisions for complex measurement and perception systems.
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The Mechatronic Sensors Trainer is an innovative sensors teaching solution for use in your mechatronics courses.
The compact device includes a rich suite of distance, motion, environmental, light, force, and touch sensors, allowing your students to not only learn the fundamental workings of these sensors, but also develop key skills in component selection and making design decisions for complex measurement and perception systems. This solution is ideal for teaching undergraduate mechatronics, and is accompanied by comprehensive fundamentals labs, integrated challenges, as well as industry relevant open-ended projects.
With the ability to provide real-time measurements, the Mechatronic Sensors Trainer can be integrated into larger systems or used to enhance the functioning capabilities of other Quanser systems such as the QBot Platform and QCar 2. In addition, this device can also be used to measure and store data asynchronously for offline processing at a later time.
The complete Mechatronics Design Lab features the Sensors Trainer alongside the Mechatronic Actuators Trainer, for a comprehensive and exploratory understanding of hardware interfacing for undergraduate education.
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Course-Ready
Comprehensive fundamentals labs, integrated challenges and industry relevant open-ended projects
Project-Ready
Variety of distance, motion, light, environment and force sensors and I/O for rapid prototyping
Outreach-Ready
Intuitive user experience and interface in a compact unit promote interactive STEM education
Lab-Ready
Cost-effective pricing and bundle options allow session-wide deployment across a course
| Dimensions | 18 cm x 13 cm x 3 cm |
| Connection Interface | USB, SD Card |
| Sensors | Passive infrared sensor for motion detection |
| Multi-object 60GHz pulsed coherent radar system | |
| Reflective Infrared distance module | |
| Multi-object ultrasonic distance sensor |
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| 64 zone time of flight distance sensor | |
| Camera | |
| Color sensor w/ RGB/ambient/optical-IR ranges and 4x RGB/IR LEDs | |
| Ambient light dependent resistor | |
| Nine axis IMU w/ accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer | |
| Weather module with pressure, temperature and humidity | |
| Encoder knob w/ 24 pulses per re | |
| Joystick w/ two analog axis and button | |
| 2x configurable push buttons | |
| 800 x 480 touchscreen LCD w/ 10-finger multitouch interface | |
| Dual microphones, and speaker | |
| External Sensor Interface | Load cell connector |
| Header – Serial/SPI/I2C, 4 GPIO, force sensing resistor | |
| Thermocouple connector | |
| Encoder connector w/ 32-bit quadrature decoding | |
| External Sensors provided | Load cell |
| Force sensing resistor | |
| Thermocouple | |
| Language support | Python / C / MATLAB / Simulink |
Fundamentals Labs
Sensor fundamentals labs covering the workings of different types of sensors, data acquisition and processing, as well as component selection
Integration Challenges
Guided challenges developing design intuition for complex measurement and perception systems, using a variety of sensors together
Projects
Industry-relevant open-ended projects with the Mechatronic Actuators Trainer, such as a mobile robot, smart home system, etc.
Group Citation: Mechatronics
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