
Qube – Servo 3
Low cost teaching platform for controls and mechatronics
The Quanser Qube-Servo 3 is a portable, fully integrated servomotor platform designed specifically for teaching control concepts at the undergraduate level. The system is equipped with a high-quality direct-drive brushed DC motor, two encoders, an internal data acquisition system, and an amplifier. Connect with USB to a Windows PC (macOs and Linux support coming soon).
Learn More- Portable: Light weight and small form factor
- Safe: Built-in motor stall protection and thermal
- Comprehensive Courseware: ABET-aligned courseware mapped to popular control engineering textbooks and compatible with all existing QUBE – Servo 2
- Options: Inertia disk and pendulum attachment included
Inertia Disk Module
- Hardware integration
- Filtering
- Step response modeling
- Block diagram modeling
- Parameter estimation
- Frequency response modeling
- State-space modeling
- Friction identification
- Stability analysis
- Second-order systems
- Routh-Hurwitz stability
- Nyquist stability
- PD control
- Lead Compensator
- Proportional control
- Steady-state error
- Load disturbance
- Robustness
- Optimal control
- Introduction to discrete control
- Discrete control design
- Discrete control stability
Pendulum Module
- Moment of inertia
- Pendulum modeling
- State-space modeling
- Pendulum balance control
- Swing-up control
- LQR state-feedback balance control
- Pole-placement state-feedback balance control
Data acquisition device | Integrated |
Amplifier | Integrated |
Control design environment |
QUARC™ for MATLAB SimulinkQuanser API’s for Python and C/C++ |
Product Details
Interface | USB |
Dimensions (W x H x D) | 10.2 cm x 10.2 cm x 11.7 cm |
Weight | 1..083 kg |
Pendulum length (pivot to tip) | 9.5 cm |
DC motor encoder resolution (quadrature mode) | 2,048 counts/revolution |
Pendulum module encoder resolution (quadrature mode) | 2,048 counts/revolution |
DC motor nominal voltage | 24 V |
DC motor nominal current (no load) | 0.16 A |
DC motor nominal speed (no load) | 5400 RPM |
Current sense | 12-bit, with 16 sample PWM synchronized digital filtering |
Encoder | 2 x 24-bit |
Digital tachometer | 2 x 32-bit with 13.8ns resolution |
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