QLabs Virtual Ball and Beam
Virtual platform for distance and blended undergraduate control systems courses
QLabs Virtual Ball and Beam is a fully instrumented, dynamically accurate digital twin of the Quanser Ball and Beam system. It behaves in the same way as the physical hardware and can be measured and controlled using MATLAB®/Simulink® and other development environments. With QLabs Virtual Ball and Beam, you can enrich your lectures and activities in traditional labs, or bring credible, authentic model-based lab experiences into your distance and online control systems course.
QLabs Virtual Ball and Beam is available as a 12-month, multi-seat subscription. The platform is compatible with the physical Ball and Beam curriculum, which covers various modelling and control topics.
Learn More- High-fidelity, credible lab experiences equivalent to use of physical lab equipment
- 12-month, multi-seat subscription
- Full access to system parameters through Matlab®/Simulink®
- ABET-aligned curriculum
Modeling Topics
Control Topics
- First-principles derivation
- Transfer function representation
- Linearization
- Model validation
- PID
- Multiple loops
- Root locus
Product Details
| App download & access to subscription management | Quanser Academic Portal |
| App OS compatibility | MS Windows 10 64-bit |
| Required software | MATLAB 2019a or later (not included) |
| Minimum system requirements | Video Card: Intel HD 4400 or equivalent DX11 GPU Processor: Core i3-5000 series mobile CPU or equivalent Memory: 4 GM RAM |
| Recommended system requirements | Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or equivalent GPU Video Memory: 2 GB VRAM Processor: Core i5-7300U 3.5 GHz or equivalent Memory: 8 GM RAM |
