Industrial Mechatronic Drives Unit (IMDU)
Challenge: Flexible And Cost-Effective Industrial Plant Emulator. Description - IMDU Base Unit: Based on a modular and open-architecture design, Quanser's expandable Industrial Mechatronic Drives Unit (IMDU) offers a highly practical way to teach and research real-world servo control fundamentals including backlash and friction compensation, as well as haptics and teleoperation, web winding control, minimization of torsional vibration, and coupled high-order implementations of complex industrial processes. The IMDU is also an excellent tool for industrial R&D applications, allowing for the practical implementation of applied control. Two shafts are motor-driven via a 3:1 belt drive while the other two shafts are free to rotate inside low-friction bearing blocks. Each shaft boasts a high-resolution encoder and both 100 W motors are powered by linear current amplifiers. One of the motors may be used as a drive motor while the other can be used to impose disturbances. The design features the ability to emulate the "real world" by introducing non-linear properties to the system. IMDU- Multi- DOF Torsion Module
Challenge: Flexible And Cost-Effective Industrial Plant Emulator Description - IMDU Multi-DOF Torsion Module: The robust Multiple-Degree-Of-Freedom (Multi-DOF) Torsion Module mounts on the IMDU base unit and consists of a sturdy torsion frame and four flexible steel shafts. The machined aluminum torsion frame features a plate equipped with four shafts instrumented with quadrature optical encoders and are free to spin in low-friction bearing blocks. When mounted on the IMDU, the shafts are concentric with the four IMDU shafts. Four flexible steel members are supplied such that they can be assembled into the unit to introduce flexible coupling between shafts. The four shafts can be coupled in series via belts and toothed pulleys to result in a system with four serial flexible members. One of the motors can be used as a drive motor while the other can be used to impose disturbances. This system can be readily used to perform experiments in teleoperation and haptics. For example, one motor (slave) could be used to drive a load coupled via the rotary flexible shaft(s) while the other motor (master) can be used to command the load position as well as to reflect, through force feedback, load vibrations to the human operator. IMDU Web Transport Module
Challenge: Flexible And Cost-Effective Industrial Plant Emulator Description - IMDU Web Transport Module: The IMDU Web Winding Module illustrates the principles of web tension and speed control design, implementation and testing. This module consists of:
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