Labview projects for engineering students elprocus. Ejemplo arduino pid discreto labview ball and beam youtube. Place the ball on the beam from 30cm to 30cm in steps of 5cm and record this ball position in your previously created table of values. Iacsit international journal of engineering and technology, vol. Average the two ball positions from the two polynomials in labview to get one final ball position measurement x this is the value well use for our ball position throughout the lab. When the angle is changed from the horizontal position. An pid controller is used to control the position of the ball on the beam. Design and implementation of ball and beam system using.
Servos like this usually operate in radio control vehicles and they are very. The ball and beam system is laboratory equipment with high nonlinearity in its dynamics and pid control. Click the beamviewusb software installation guide link to view the document. The complete description of the dynamics of the ball rolling on the beam is quite complicated and for control. A lever arm is attached to the beam at one end and a servo gear at the other. Laboratory virtual instrument engineering workbench labview. As the servo gear turns by an angle, the lever changes the angle of the beam by. Dec 17, 2011 we control the classic ball and beam system using a camera as feedback. Labview includes builtin support for ni hardware platforms such as compactdaq and compactrio, with a large number of devicespecific blocks for such hardware, the measurement and automation explorer max and virtual instrument software architecture visa toolsets. Feedback instruments ball and plate control system is controlled by ni labview using a ni interface card and demonstrates a classic control problem of balancing a sphere on a flat surface and maintaining its position.
The position of the ball is measured by a distance sensor mounted at the end of the beam. The analysis program computed the average friction coefficient by averaging the friction force over the mid 80% of the track and dividing by the mean load. The acrome ball and beam control system trainer kit is designed for the study of the fundamentals of. Quansers expansive range of products and platforms offer the fastest and easiest way to meet academic objectives for teaching and research. It is a crash course on software design using labview as the tool. Labview offers a graphical programming approach that helps you visualize every aspect of your application, including hardware configuration, measurement data, and debugging. Pid controllers are designed based on labview program. Ejemplo arduino pid discreto labview ball and beam duration. The problem of the ball on beam becomes interesting because when the ball begins moving it will roll off the end of the beam if no control action is taken. Then, by using the data received from myrio, five different leds turn on and off depending on the position of the ball on the beam. The program acquired 256 load and force points per cycle. The connections shown below are illustrated using a generic data acquisition daq device and a voltpaqx1 amplifier you may have a. Then, by using the data received from myrio, five different.
Customizable software with userfriendly gui national instruments labview based open source software allows students implementing their own controller designs. The assignment was to construct a ball and beam control system. Software for the ball and beam control system trainer kit by acrome. Experimental control design for ball and beam system author. This paper presents a realtime application of ball and beam controlled by pid controller designed based on labview program and the real time position. The srv02 ball and beam module can also be accompanied by a remote ball sensor called the ss01 module. The ball and beam module can also be paired with an additional remote sensor. The construction of the ball on beam involves a beam that can be tilted either from the centre of the axis. Application of a labview for realtime control of ball and beam.
Ball and beam using a webcam and ni labview youtube. Software for thorlabs beam profilers and m 2 measurement systems. Dec 14, 2015 a pid algorithm measures the distance to the ball and raises or lowers a beam to try to get the ball to the center. Modular design high quality precision crafted parts. The ball and beam is an unstable system, similar to exothermic chemical processes that have to be. Beamview software the latest release of the beamviewusb 4.
Ball balancing table, with its easily accessible and userfriendly components, is a handson experiment, closing the gap between real industrial systems and diyapproach. System modeling and simulation provide useful and safe mechanisms for initial controller design. This permits a masterslave configuration where the ball command is generated by the ss01 instead of through a program. The code for i2c serial communication between the msp430 and myrio in code composer studio software. The grabcad library offers millions of free cad designs, cad files, and 3d models. A ping pong ball sits on top of the beam rolling forwards and backwards according to the pitch of the beam. Design and implementation of ball and beam system using pid. The ball and beam system shown below in figure 1 has the control objective of placing the ball anywhere along the beam by varying the motor voltage. For full details, see the ball and beam user manual enclosed with shipment. The communication of these can be done using different protocols namely rs232, tcpip, rs485, etc. The acrome ball and beam control system trainer kit is designed for the study of the fundamentals of automatic control theory.
The full product is comprised of both software and hardware. It introduces the concept of labview component oriented design lcod making the development of large applications manageable. Uses the control algorithm to automatically position the ball at the desired setpoint the software was developed using labview s prebuilt library of control functions. Ball balancing table, with its easily accessible and userfriendly components, is a hands on experiment, closing the gap between real industrial systems and diyapproach. Control of a ball and beam system using fuzzy logic. This was suplimented by some custom functionality, which performs easing on the servo motor to facilitate smoother motion. Software package with driver and graphical user interface for operating the. Using labview makes the application very useful for teaching and. The ball and beam module can also be paired with an additional remote sensor module, in which case the system operates in a masterslave mode where the ball on the beam will follow the reference ball position of the. Sep 03, 2011 use rootlocus to design a pd controller for the quanser ball and beam system using labview. Of computer science and automatic control uned, c juan del rosal 16 28040 madrid, spain email. The first one, a fuzzy logic controller has been developed with the help of simulink and.
A feasibility assessment of using ultrasonic sensor. He ball and beam device in controls education provides an example of underactuated mechanical systems and examples of lqr and pole placement design. The ball and beam module can be operated in standalone mode, and the ball position can be controlled via the user interface. Application of a labview for realtime control of ball and. Iacsit international journal of engineering and technology.
Ball and beam control system trainer kit by acrome national. The hardware should be purchased separately from acrome. Ball and beam is a common feedback control system application, due mostly to its ease in construction and its use in learning. This document and the software described in it are provided subject to a license agreement. Feedback instruments ball and plate control system is controlled by ni labview using a ni interface card and demonstrates a classic control problem of balancing a sphere on a flat surface and. It is a great introduction to linear systems and cascade controllers. This paper presents a webbased control laboratory of a nonlinear and.
This was a school project, the assignment was to construct a ball and beam control system. As described in the prelab, the purpose of this laboratory is to control a balls position along a beam by manipulating the load angle of the servo motor. Basil hamed application of a labview for realtime control of ball and beam system iacsit international journal of engineering and technology, vol. Jul 25, 2016 the ball and beam system constitutes a classic control system problem. Of computer science and automatic control uned, c juan del rosal 16 28040 madrid. Quanser controls board quanser aero qube servo 2 rotary double inverted pendulum. In this code, the realtime position data of the ball on the beam from the camera in labview, has been sent to the msp430 using i2c protocol. A ball is placed on a beam, see figure below, where it is allowed to roll with 1 degree of freedom along the length of the beam. Predesigned ball and beam model and controllers are ready for performance measurements and observing responses of fundamental controller types. Controlling the position of a ball on a beam is one of the classical problems of control theory.
Experimental control design for ball and beam system by. Labview software was used to program the tribometer and collect normal load and friction force data. A ball on plate system is the two dimension extension to the ball on beam system. Software for thorlabs beam profilers and m 2 measurement. Join the grabcad community today to gain access and download. It can then be programmed to make the ball describe a circular or any other shaped path around the plate. Application of a labview for realtime control of ball and beam system basil hamed abstract virtual instrumentation is defined as the combination of measurement and control hardware and application software with industrystandard computer technology to create userdefined instrumentation systems. Construction s can vary, but the principles are similar. The software is available for purchase on the labview tools network. This permits a masterslave configuration where the ball command is generated by the ss01. Labview 20 for myrio module, labview 20 pid and fuzzy logic toolkit.
Our ball and beam system provides practicing the automatic control theory on a closed loop experiment. Pdf application of a labview for realtime control of ball. Ball and beam is a common feedback control system application, due mostly to its ease in. Ball and beam control system trainer kit by acrome. The ball and beam module consists of a steel rod in parallel with a nickelchromium, wirewound resistor forming the track on which the metal ball is free to roll. The pitch is controlled by a servo that is connected to an arduino. Pdf design and implementation of an embedded ballbeam. A feasibility assessment of using ultrasonic sensor position. As the servo gear turns by an angle theta, the lever changes the angle of the beam by alpha. Labview is systems engineering software for applications that require test, measurement, and control with rapid access to hardware and data insights.
Labview projects for engineering students currently, the labview based hardware units are commonly used in various industries due to their features like rugged design and exact control. The track is effectively a potentiometer, outputting a voltage thats proportional to the position of the ball. It is a book intended for the intermediate to advanced labview programmer. Abstractvirtual instrumentation is defined as the combination of measurement and control hardware and application software with industrystandard computer technology to create userdefined. Ball and beam components the ball and beam components are identified in section 2. Follow the procedure below to set up your ball and beam module. The connections shown below are illustrated using a generic data acquisition daq device and a voltpaqx1 amplifier you may have a different daq or amplifier. The ball and beam system consists of a long beam together with a ball rolling back and forth on top of the beam. Ball and beam gyrostable platform multidof torsion qube servo 2.
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