Lab #3:

Instructions

Hook your system to the apparatus and balance the load! This must be demo'd for your TA at the beginning of your lab section next week. Please be gentle with the apparatus!!

You might get some ideas  this website about PID control algorithms. It includes a simulator for experimenting with various parameters. If that website is down, here is another decent overview, but it does not have simulator.  I'm sure you can find an applet that can simulate various algorithms. 

Contest

On Wednesday 10/31 at 5:00 we will have a speed balancing contest, with a PIZZA party in the name of the winners. I think hard hats and overalls would be appropriate attire for working with heavy machinery like this (it is Halloween after all).

Turn in:

Code with explanation of the software, including:
    Task decomposition
    Ramping algorithm
        Describe any experiments you performed and conclusions that you drew from them.
    Control algorithm
        Describe any experiments you performed  (or problemsand conclusions that you drew from them.

Resource requirements as usual.