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MagnetoShield: A Novel Open-Source Magnetic Levitation Benchmark Device for Mechatronics Education and Research
Gergely Takács1, Jakub Mihalík1, Martin Gulan1,2
1AutomationShield.com Open-Source Initiative, 812 31 Bratislava, Slovakia.
Abstract:
This article presents an open-source device illustrating the well-known magnetic levitation experiment. The uniqueness of this particular device lies in its exceptionally small dimensions, affordability and availability, which makes it a perfect design for take-home experiments for education but it can also serve as a referential design for testing various control algorithms in research. In addition, this paper provides a comprehensive hardware design for reproducibility along with the detailed derivation of the mathematical model, system identification and validation. Moreover, the introduced hardware comes with an easy-to-use open-source application programming interface in C/C++ for the Arduino IDE, Simulink and CircuitPython. REXYGEN, another environment similar to Simulink, had also been used to demonstrate the capabilities of the MagnetoShield.
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