Control System Trainer

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Control System Trainer

Key Features

  • Building control circuits and PC control programming
  • Introduces electronic control techniques
  • Bread board area allows expansion of project ideas
  • Control of a D.C. motor for temperature, speed and direction control
  • Light control system
  • Seven other projects with varying complexity
  • Connection for control from a PC using program development software
  • Comprehensive labworks for control circuits and programming software

 

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Product Description

The Control System Trainer (CST) is designed for the study of digital and analogue control engineering using fundamental control theory with simple direct connections or the use of programming software. The CST can be used to carry out the various experiments using the elements and breadboard to design a control application to a specification. Simple or complex experiments are possible by linking the range of devices and sensors on the CST.

The CST has two main project areas and a range of digital logic building blocks with a prototyping area. The first project area has a D.C. motor, for speed and direction control combined with a heater for temperature control. Consisting of a 5V dc motor; this is used in a closed-loop to drive a fan that cools a heater to a set temperature or can be used to break an infra-red beam for speed control. The second, main project area is a light control system; a controller is required to maintain a set luminance when an external interference from a second lamp is introduced, it uses two light sources, one source of light and one source of light disturbance.

There are a variety of projects to undertake using the range of sensors and devices on the CST. These elements are a bread board area, voltage to frequency converter, light dependant resistor (LDR), a de-bounced switch, a tilt switch, Piezo buzzer, TTL monitor, a bank of logic switches, a logic probe and a clock source. Headers that accept standard solid core wires are used to connect each element of the CST. Connection to a PC is possible using a suitable interface card through digital and analogue connections.

Experiments:

  • Generic courseware for the CST
  • Generate digital outputs
  • Read in digital inputs
  • Read in digital inputs on port B and output them on port A
  • Sound Piezo buzzer when CST is tilted
  • Pulse an output at a rate specified by user
  • Sense closure of the de-bounced switch and keep a count of the occurrences
  • Sense closure of the de-bounced switch and keep a count of the occurrences over a specified time interval
  • Count input pulses from the clock generator, via a timer/counter channel
  • Implement software generated PWM signal
  • Implement hardware generated PWM signal using two timer/counter channels and clock generator
  • Implement hardware generated PWM signal using two timer/counter channels and user input
  • Generate an analogue voltage in the range 0-5V
  • Read an analogue voltage in the range 0-5V
  • Generate triangular wave output
  • Calibrate the LDR circuit in the light control box