Control Engineering Principles
Base Unit
CONTROLLER
A self-contained analogue and computer based controller designed to support practical investigations into the basic and advanced principles of control engineering at all academic levels.
DIGITAL INTERFACE
A self-contained computer based controller designed to support practical investigations into the basic and advanced principles of control engineering at all academic levels.
Experiment
THERMAL CONTROL PROCESS APPARATUS
A compact self-contained bench mounting temperature control apparatus designed to allow students at all academic levels to investigate the basic and advanced principles of control.
COUPLED TANKS APPARATUS
A self-contained, bench-mounting apparatus designed to allow students at all academic levels to investigate basic and advanced principles of open and closed-loop control of flowrate and liquid level in single and dual tank systems.
MULTIVARIABLE COUPLED TANKS
A compact self-contained bench mounting apparatus designed to allow students at all academic levels to investigate basic and advanced principles of open and closed-loop control of flowrate and liquid level in single and dual tank systems including multi-variable dynamics.
BALL AND BEAM APPARATUS
A compact self-contained bench mounting apparatus designed to allow students at all academic levels to investigate basic and advanced principles of control including control of naturally unstable systems.
ENGINE SPEED CONTROL APPARATUS
A compact self-contained bench mounting apparatus designed to allow students at all academic levels to investigate basic and advanced principles of control including control of non-linear systems and inner-loop feedback techniques.
COUPLED DRIVES APPARATUS
A compact, bench-mounting apparatus designed to allow students at all academic levels to investigate basic and advanced principles of control including control of multi-variable systems.
BALL AND HOOP APPARATUS
A self-contained, benchtop apparatus to demonstrate basic control of position or speed of a ball in a hoop, and more advanced studies of liquid slop.
SERVO TRAINER
A self-contained, benchtop DC servo apparatus to study basic control of speed of a servomotor, through to more advanced studies of non-linear effects of hysteresis, deadzone and saturation.