The Quanser Platform for Control Systems （Quanser平台控制系统）.pdf

The Quanser Platform for Control Systems Research Validation Michel Lévis M.A.Sc., Applications Engineer, Quanser Tom Lee Ph.D., Chief Education Officer, Quanser © 2013 Quanser Consulting Inc. All rights reserved Introduction Contemporary research in control covers extensive ranges of theoretical, computational and application fields. Since control is one of the most broadly applicable modern engineering methodologies, researchers in virtually all of the engineering disciplines apply its techniques to realize ever more complex engineering systems. Nevertheless, from a very practical perspective, it is often challenging to develop an effective research regimen that includes an advanced theoretical and algorithm framework and real-world implementation. Quanser devices offer a highly efficient platform for bridging this theory-implementation gap. In a perfect world, researchers should be able to test their control strategies and algorithms directly on a complete proto- type system. In reality, of course, such an approach would be prohibitively expensive and generally ineffective due to the exploratory nature of research. Modern control researchers have adopted a framework of hardware in the loop (HIL) implementation of the control system that integrates a physical system (the plant) that offers dynamics of sufficient realism for physically relevant testing, and a real-time computational and modeling framework that allows for rapid testing of algorithms and concepts. Using such a combination, researchers are able to readily validate their research concepts with a physical system. The Quanser platform is the de facto commercial standard for control research validation along this line for a broad range of applications including flight control, unmanned vehicle applications, biomedical and rehabilitation robotics, haptics, industrial