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Ideas are better when
they leave the lab.Teaching ideas, experiments, workshops, research and projects from the growing ACE-Lab community. See how control engineering is being explored, taught and applied.
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A collection of updates from ACE-Lab workshops, teaching, research and projects. Select a category below to explore what people have been working on.
Workshop
Taking model-based design from the screen to the bench
Another hands-on ACE-Lab session exploring DC motor speed control, experimental identification and PI control using MATLAB and Simulink.
Teaching
What if students experiment before they model?
ACE-Lab starts with observable behaviour and measured evidence before progressively moving towards mathematical modelling and model-based design.
Project
From encoder pulses to closed-loop control
Students explore sensing, signal processing and feedback control using a DC motor, encoder and microcontroller before evaluating the measured response against engineering requirements.
Research
Closing the loop between experimentation and modelling
Experimental data can become the bridge between physical behaviour and mathematical models, giving students a reason to model rather than simply presenting the mathematics first.
Workshop
Control engineering works better when everyone gets hands-on
ACE-Lab workshops combine short explanations with rapid experimental cycles so participants can build, measure, tune and refine throughout the session.
Teaching
Build it. Control it. Understand it.
Control engineering becomes much easier to interrogate when equations, simulation and measured behaviour all describe the same physical system.
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