Smart Structure
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The Quanser Smart Structure is a stand-alone bench-scale model of a tall building instrumented with an eccentric load. It is ideal to study control techniques used to suppress vibrations in tall buildings.
The Smart Structure can be used as a stand-alone system or as an add-on structure for any of Quanser Shake Tables to create experiments of increased complexity.
Product Details
The Smart Structure device consists of a flexible beam mounted on a base support plate. The beam is fitted with a strain gage sensor to measure deflection of the beam. A motorized inertial load is placed at the other end of the beam. The inertial load is actuated by a high efficiency, low inductance DC motor via a gearbox, the angle of the load is measured by an optical encoder.
- Inertia load consisting of two rigid beams and round crossbeam
- Base plate instrumented with a precise strain gage
- High-quality DC servo motor and gearbox
- High-resolution optical encoder
- Precisely machined solid aluminum parts
- Open architecture design
| Dimensions (L x W x H) | 25.5 cm x 11.5 cm x 85.5 cm (with pendulum in upright position) |
| Mass | 2.6 kg |
| Rigid beam length | 29.2 cm |
| Flexible beam length | 44.0 cm |
| Encoder resolution (in quadrature) | 4096 counts/rev |
| Strain gage sensitivity | 2.54 cm/V |
- Lagrange model derivation
- State-space representation
- Linearization
- PID control
- State-feedback / LQR control
- Cascade / multiple loops control
- Vibration control
The following additional components are required to complete your workstation, and are sold separately:
For Simulink
- QUARC® add-on for MATLAB®/Simulink®
- Quanser VoltPAQ-X1 linear voltage amplifier
- One of the following DAQ devices:
- Quanser Q2-USB
- Quanser Q8-USB
- Quanser QPIDe
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