
Quanser AERO
Flexible Platform For Control
The Quanser AERO is a fully integrated dual-motor lab experiment, designed for advanced control research and aerospace applications, that can also be used for teaching control concepts at the undergraduate level.
Learn More- Compact and integrated system
- High-efficiency coreless DC motors
- High resolution optical encoder
- Pitch & yaw axes and DC motors/rotors speed measurements through digital tachometer
- Built-in voltage amplifier with integrated current sensor
- Integrated data acquisition (DAQ) device
- Flexible QFLEX 2 computing interface for USB and SPI connections
- User-controllable tri-color LED
- Easy-connect cables and connectors
- Open architecture design, allowing users to design their own controller
- Fully compatible with MATLAB®/Simulink® and LabVIEW™
- Fully documented system models and parameters provided for MATLAB®/Simulink®, LabVIEW™
- ABET-aligned, modular, digital media courseware provided for the Quanser AERO USB
- Microcontroller examples and interfacing datasheet provided for the Quanser AERO Embedded
ABET-aligned Instructor and Student Workbooks with complete lab exercises, covering topics
- Hardware integration
- Single propeller speed control
- 1 DOF attitude control configuration
- PID control
- Iintroduction to IMU
- Modeling and model validation using transfer function
- System identification
- Gain scheduling
Laboratory Guides with modeling and control design examples
- 2 DOF helicopter configuration
- Modeling
- Linear state-space representation
- State-feedback control
- Coupled dynamics
- Half-quadrotor configuration
- Modeling
- Simple yaw control
- Kalman filter
The following additional components are required to complete your workstation, and are sold separately:
For USB QFLEX Panel
- QUARC® add-on for MATLAB®/Simulink®
For NI myRIO QFLEX Panel
- NI myRIO embedded device
For Embedded QFLEX Panel
- Microprocessor (e.g. Arduino, Raspberry Pi)
Product Details
Base dimensions (W x D x H) | 17.8 cm x 17.8 cm x 7 cm |
Device height | 35.6 cm (with propeller in horizontal position) |
Device length | 51 cm |
Device mass | 3.6 kg |
Propeller diameter | 12.7 cm |
Yaw angle range | 360º |
Elevation angle range | 124º (± 62º from horizontal) half-quadrotor configuration |
Pitch encoder resolution (in quadrature) | 2048 counts/revolution |
Yaw/travel encoder resolution (in quadrature) | 4096 counts/revolution |
Pitch / yaw motor resistance | 15.6 Ω |
Pitch / yaw current torque constant | 57.7 Nm/A |
Tri-axis gyroscope range | ± 245 dps |
Tri-axis accelerometer range | ± 2g |
QFLEX 2 interface options: – QFLEX 2 USB – QFLEX 2 Embedded |
USB 2.0 SPI |
Click here to view our comprehensive mapping tool which allows you to align courseware sections with specific chapters of the Experience Controls textbook app, as well as the most popular engineering textbooks such as:
Control Systems Engineering – N.S. Wise
Feedback Systems – K.J. Astrom & R.M. Murray
Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems – G.F. Franklin, J.D. Powell & A. Emami-Naeini
Modern Control Systems – R.C. Dorf & R.H. Bishop
Modern Control Engineering – K. Ogata
Automatic Control Systems – F. Golnaraghi & B.C. Kuo
Control Systems Engineering – I.J. Nagrath & M. Gopal
Mechatronics – W. Bolton