LT-MC304 2-DOF Ball Balancer

Labtronic offers the 2-DOF Ball Balancer Trainer, a benchtop educational unit designed to teach fundamental and intermediate control principles. It focuses on automatic control using vision-based motion platforms and introduces various control methods. Trainees can use the trainer to explore real-world control challenges, such as managing pan-tilt cameras. The system consists of two Rotary Servo Base Units that support the 2 DOF Ball Balancer, providing hands-on experience in balancing and motion control. This trainer offers practical insights into control systems while demonstrating key concepts in dynamic motion and feedback control.

• Familiarization with unstable closed-loop systems.
• Strengthening fundamental principles of control methods.
• Enhancing modeling topics such as:
• Model derivation
• First-principles derivation
• Transfer function representation
• Linearization
• Learning the PD control method.
• Exploring multiple control loops.
• Demonstration of sensor calibration and actuator usage.
• Applying the one-dimensional Ball and Beam experiment to the X-Y planar case.