EicasLab Demo: Rotating Table

EicasLab Demo is a freeware edition of EicasLab Suite, designed with the aim of showing you the potentiality of the Modeling and Like Real-time Simulation operating mode on the control design for the rotating table application case.

EicasLab Demo shows you how EicasLab Suite can help you in control design and simulation, by presenting a comparison of the most common control algorithm techniques, applied to a “rotating table” single axis control application. The control has been designed on the basis of a “simplified model” and applied to a simulated “fine model” of the rotating table. The “fine model” includes frictions, backlash, elasticity and hysteresis affecting the transmission from the motor and the table.

Different control architectures are considered (varying the measured rotation angle) and different control algorithms are compared:

• PID: Proportional Integrative Derivative control algorithm
• Classical model based control: based on state observer and state control
• EICAS model based control: developed following the EICAS Control design methodology

Moreover, the possibility to program an “User” control by adopting any one of the considered control architecture is given, in order to allow you to build your own control algorithm and to perform comparison with the other predefined test cases.