TY - GEN
T1 - At-home systems and controls laboratory
AU - Durfee, William
AU - Li, Perry
AU - Waletzko, David
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - At-home laboratories are inexpensive hardware kits that students take home and work on much like a problem set. The kits have an embedded microcontroller and communicate to the student's home PC over a serial port. The home PC provides the needed computational horsepower for experiment control, data collection, data analysis and reporting. The microcontroller handles real-time control tasks. Two first-generation kits were developed, a fourth-order, linear mass-spring-damper system for frequency response and system identification, and an analog filtering system that uses music and synthetic sound as an input for understanding the properties of analog filters. Twenty five kits were constructed and used by students. Based on this pilot, improved, second generation kits have been designed.
AB - At-home laboratories are inexpensive hardware kits that students take home and work on much like a problem set. The kits have an embedded microcontroller and communicate to the student's home PC over a serial port. The home PC provides the needed computational horsepower for experiment control, data collection, data analysis and reporting. The microcontroller handles real-time control tasks. Two first-generation kits were developed, a fourth-order, linear mass-spring-damper system for frequency response and system identification, and an analog filtering system that uses music and synthetic sound as an input for understanding the properties of analog filters. Twenty five kits were constructed and used by students. Based on this pilot, improved, second generation kits have been designed.
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U2 - 10.1115/IMECE2005-82566
DO - 10.1115/IMECE2005-82566
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33645691623
SN - 0791842169
SN - 9780791842164
T3 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dynamic Systems and Control Division (Publication) DSC
SP - 759
EP - 768
BT - Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division 2005
T2 - 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2005
Y2 - 5 November 2005 through 11 November 2005
ER -