EE192: Mechatronics Design Lab Spring 2013

lab schedule

week date topics assignment project checkpoint
1 1/22 Project description and uC intro 0 - Team Formation
2 1/29 Motor modeling and control, uC I/O 1 - Hello World
3 2/5 PWM, H-Bridge, power MOSFETs Written proposal 2 - Car checkup
4 2/12 Servomotors, uC PWM, Power supply I 3 - Motor and steering actuation
5 2/19 Power Supply II PCB1 4 - Motor drive from battery
6 2/26 Optical encoder, Magnetic/optical sensing, A/D conversion 5 - Stall test
7 3/5 Analog design, Line sensing I 6 - Open-loop steering
8 3/12 Line sensing II, velocity control PCB2 7 - Benchtop tracking
9 3/19 Steering and tracking control Progress report 8 - Closed-loop steering
10 3/26 Spring Break
11 4/2 Feedforward applied to steering and tracking control MATLAB sim 9 - Velocity control
12 4/9 Discretized control and filtering 10 - Practice course
13 4/16 Robustness and uncertainty 11 - Race, R1
14 4/23 Examples of mechatronics I
15 4/30 Examples of mechatronics II 12 - Race, R2
16 5/2 Student oral reports Oral reports
17 516 Final exam