EE192: Mechatronics Design Lab Spring 2014

Lab Schedule

Week Checkpoint Date Topics Assignment Project Checkpoint
1 1/24 Project description, uC intro, and soldering 0 - Team formation
2 1/31 Motor modeling and control, uC I/O 1 - Hello World
3 2/7 PWM, H-Bridge, power MOSFETs Project Proposal 2 - Car checkup
4 2/14 Servos, uC PWM, Power supply I 3 - Motor and steering actuation
5 2/21 Power Supply II 2/18 11am - PCB Draft 4 - Motor drive from battery
6 2/28 Optical encoder, Magnetic/optical sensing, A/D conversion 5 - Everything from battery
7 3/7 Analog design, Line sensing I 6 - Open-loop figure 8
8 3/14 Line sensing II, velocity control 7 - Benchtop tracking
9 3/21 Steering and tracking control Progress Report
MATLAB Sim
8 - Closed-loop figure 8
10 3/28 Spring Break
11 4/4 Feedforward applied to steering and tracking control 9 - Velocity control
12 4/11 Discretized control and filtering 10 - Practice course
13 4/18 Robustness and uncertainty 11 - Race 1
14 4/25 Examples of mechatronics I
15 5/2 Examples of mechatronics II 12 - Race 2
16 5/1, 5/2 Student oral reports
17 5/15 Final Exam