Embedded Control Systems

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Block Course

This two-week block course is scheduled from September 7 to 11 and 14 to 18, 2009. Jim Freudenberg Professor and Director of Systems Laboratory at the University of Michigan will lecture.

Abstract

This course provides a comprehensive overview of embedded control systems. The concepts introduced are implemented and verified on a microprocessor-controlled haptic device.

Objective

Familiarize students with main architectural principles and concepts of embedded control systems.

Content

An embedded system is a microprocessor used as a component in another piece of technology, such as cell phones or automobiles. In this intensive two-week block course the students are presented the principles of embedded digital control systems using a haptic device as an example for a mechatronic system. A haptic interface allows for a human to interact with a computer through the sense of touch.

Subjects covered in lectures and practical lab exercises include:
• The application of C-programming on a microprocessor
• Digital I/O and serial communication
• Quadrature decoding for wheel position sensing
• Queued analog-to-digital conversion to interface with the analog world
• Pulse width modulation
• Timer interrupts to create sampling time intervals
• System dynamics and virtual worlds with haptic feedback
• Introduction to rapid prototyping

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