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Engineering Education
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Volume 9, 2014 - Issue 1
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Research Article

Development of a Low-cost, Portable Hardware Platform to Support Hands-on Learning in the Teaching of Control and Systems Theory

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Pages 62-73 | Published online: 15 Dec 2015

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Figure 1 The hardware platform, showing (1) the 3-DOF helicopter body, (2) signal conditioning and fan driver interface, (3) National Instruments myDAQ module, (4) control PC, (5) LabVIEW Data acquisition teaching module.

Figure 2 The coordinate system for the 3-DOF helicopter. The elevation, pitch and travel angles, E(t), Ψ(t), Θ(t), respectively, are shown in their positive sense. The fan thrust vectors, F a (t) and F b (t), are also shown.

Figure 3 The block diagram of the system.

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