Location: Room No. 010, Block VI

General information about lab

The Process Control Lab provides training to the students (B.E (Instrumentation & Control), M.Tech(Process Control), and PhD) in the field of Process Instrumentation, control and optimization. A number of PCs are interfaced with Hydraulic, Electro-pneumatic and Electro-Hydraulic systems which are available to demonstrate dynamic processes and to monitor process variables. New equipments like Inverted Pendulum, 3 degree of freedom helicopter have been incorporated in the lab to enable students and scholars to work in the field of nonlinear system environment. Inverted pendulum systems make good bench top demonstrations of automatic control techniques. They are nonlinear, unstable systems which showcase modern control methods and have the added bonus of being exciting to watch. This laboratory has an inverted pendulum rig provided by the Educational Control Products Company. It is not the conventional rod-on-cart inverted pendulum, but rather steers a horizontal rod in the presence of gravity to balance and control the vertical rod. The 3 DOF Helicopter system is a simplified helicopter model, ideally suited to introduce intermediate to advanced control concepts and theories relevant to real world applications of flight dynamics and control in tandem rotor helicopters, or any device with similar dynamics. Students learn to develop a state-space model of the system, design a state-feedback controller to regulate the elevation and travel angels of the 3 DOF Helicopter, simulate the closed-loop position controller and evaluate its performance using the linear model of the 3 DOF Helicopter, implement the designed controller on an actual system and evaluate its performance.