Downloads and Resources

Most of the supporting software and documentation for the experiments in the UGCL is available on this web page. You can find the following items here:

1. Movies of experiments are in the form of AVI and (streaming) MPEG files. A media player such as the Windows Media Player is needed to view those multimedia files.
2. Manuals and supporting documentation is available in the form of Portable Document Format (PDF) files and is a fairly unified way of transporting (printable) documents over the web. Obviously, you need to install Adobe Acrobat reader on your system in order to be able to view and print these documents.
3. Matlab programs are in the form of M-files that are ASCII text files that can be viewed in your browser or directly saved to your drive.
4. Drivers are in the form of C-files or stored in a ZIP archive. The c-files are ASCII text files that can be viewed in your browser or directly saved to your drive. The ZIP archive can be processed by PKZIP by PKWARE.

Movies

• MPEG movie [1.75MB] of the torsional system experiment without control.
• MPEG movie [1.75MB] of the torsional system experiment with control.
• MPEG movie [1.27MB] of the rectilinear system subjected to step-wise forcing functions under feedback control.
• MPEG movie [3.18MB] of the comparison of rectilinear system subjected to step-wise forcing functions without and with control.
• MPEG movie [5.58MB] of the inverted pendulum system stabilized at a specific angle by state feedback control.
• MPEG movie [2.35MB] of a flexible tensegrity structure on the shaker table system and controlled by its base strings for vibration isolation.
• MPEG movie [1.30MB] of a flexible load beam used in the flexible beam experiment and controlled by using the optical encoder output of the motor only to reduce the flexibilities of the load beam.

Manuals

• ECP Manual [4.86MB] of the torsional system experiment.
• ECP Manual [4.08MB] of the industrial emulator experiment.
• ECP Manual [6.0MB] of the rectilinear system experiment.
• ECP Manual [4.22MB] of the moment gyroscope experiment.
• ECP Manual [763KB] of the inverted pendulum experiment.

Matlab programs

• maelab Matlab m-file [22.1KB] used in the control experiments of the MAE171A/MAE175A courses.
• parameters Matlab m-file [607B] used in the control experiments of the MAE171A/MAE175A courses.
• Matlab Simulink 2DOF simulation model [10.3KB] that can be used in the control experiments of the MAE171A/MAE175A courses.
• Matlab Simulink XPC driver interface [13.8KB] for the Quanser MultiQ3 ASI cards.

Drivers for MultiQ3

• speed.c [1.82KB] that can be used to verify the speed of AD conversion of the of MultiQ3 ASI card for real-time control.
• test_mq3.c [16.1KB] that can be used to test the full functionality of the of MultiQ3 ASI card.
• ZIP archive [122KB] of all MultiQ3 test programs and their compiled versions, that should be run under DOS for proper real-time operation.
• admultiq3.c [6.64KB] driver for MultiQ3 ASI card that can be used with Matlab 6.5 real-time workshop and XPC target for AD conversion in real-time control implementations.
• damultiq3.c [5.3KB] driver for MultiQ3 ASI card that can be used with Matlab 6.5 real-time workshop and XPC target for DA conversion in real-time control implementations.