{"id":38,"date":"2012-05-26T15:17:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T13:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inference.dk\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2013-12-24T20:54:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T19:54:21","slug":"fuzcon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/inference.dk\/?page_id=38","title":{"rendered":"Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

The student\u00a0designs and tunes a controller that balances a rolling ball\u00a0in the course\u00a0Fuzzy Control (Internet course).<\/em><\/h3>\n

Figure 1 is\u00a0a photo of a laboratory rig that balances a ball\u2014also called the cart-ball<\/em> rig, and Figure 2 shows\u00a0a Matlab simulator of the same rig.<\/p>\n

\"Cart-ball<\/a>

Figure 1. Laboratory cart-ball rig. The control objective is to balance the ball on the top, and at the same time position the cart on the middle of the track.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Simulator\"<\/a>

Figure 2. Cart-ball simulator in Matlab. The front panel shows an animation and controller settings. Click the image to see an animation.<\/p><\/div>\n

The control objective is to balance the ball at the top by pulling the cart back and forth. The student works with the simulator, which\u00a0is built from basic Matlab functions; therefore it does not require any toolboxes. The\u00a0learning objective is:<\/p>\n