Desenvolvimento, análise e controle de um módulo de levitação a ar

Abstract

When dealing with fully theoretical subjects, it becomes hard to comprehend the application of in-class studies. This also includes dynamic control subjects, due also to the fact that many universities do not have an adequate infrastructure to improve practical labs, and this might damage the students' understatement of such content. That being said, this work consists of projecting and constructing a relatively low cost air levitating didactic module, where a (commonly) ping-pong ball's positioning will be measured inside a tube, while being sustained through an air flow inside said tube. The measurement will be made by an infrared sensor, and the module itself communicates with a computer and the MATLAB®/Simulink® software through the Arduino® prototyping platform. After that, different PID (proportional-integral-derivative) controllers will be applied for transient response evaluation.