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EOD Site Visit (12.20.2000)

NSF GOAL I Initiative: Integrating Industry Perspectives into University Research By Creating Teams of Academic-Industry Technology Specialists. This project will develop rapid-prototyping tools for control which are adaptable to EOD's wide range of products. To date, existing EOD controllers are analog, single loop designs, obtained using classical techniques. The new tools will extend EOD control design capabilities to include adaptive, robust and multivariable schemes. It will support digital implementation in a DSP-based environment and support both advanced floating-point and fixed-point processors. These tools will replace the time-consuming and error-prone process of manual programming with automatic code generation. The proposed suite of prototyping tools (shown below) include MATLAB, Simulink, dSPACE's real-time control hardware (PowerPC-based), TMS320Cxx emulator and SigLab's data-acquisition instrument.

status: on-going


EOD Site Visit (12.20.2000)
 

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