Embedded Control Systems

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Block Course

This two-week block course is scheduled from September 10 to 14 and 17 to 21, 2012. 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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