Didactic platform for DC motor speed and position control in Z-plane
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Published on: December 14, 2011
Tomàs Pallejà Cabré1, Albert Saiz Vela1, Marcel Tresanchez Ribes1
1University of Lleida, Department of Computer Science and Industrial Engineering, C\Jaume II, 69, 25001, Lleida, Spain.
Abstract:
This paper describes how to implement a low-cost didactic platform designed to teach or reinforce discrete control theory concepts. The controllers used in this work (P, PI, PD, and PID) are suitable for undergraduate students but the same platform could be used to explain and test advanced controllers to graduate students. This document shows, step by step, how to control a DC motor speed and position, along with the most common problems and its solutions, commonly overlooked in the literature. It also explains how to simulate the system behavior and compares the simulations with the real data, showing an average correlation coefficient of ρ=0.983.
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