Quanser AERO

• Compact and integrated system
• High-efficiency coreless DC motors
• High resolution optical encoder
• Pitch & yaw axes and DC motors/rotors speed measurements through digital tachometer
• Built-in voltage amplifier with integrated current sensor
• Integrated data acquisition (DAQ) device
• Flexible QFLEX 2 computing interface for USB and SPI connections
• User-controllable tri-color LED
• Easy-connect cables and connectors
• Open architecture design, allowing users to design their own controller
• Fully compatible with MATLAB®/Simulink® and LabVIEW™
• Fully documented system models and parameters provided for MATLAB®/Simulink®, LabVIEW™
• ABET-aligned, modular, digital media courseware provided for the Quanser AERO USB
• Microcontroller examples and interfacing datasheet provided for the Quanser AERO Embedded

ABET-aligned Instructor and Student Workbooks with complete lab exercises, covering topics

• Hardware integration
• Single propeller speed control
• 1 DOF attitude control configuration
  • PID control
  • Introduction to IMU
  • Modeling and model validation using transfer function
  • System identification
  • Gain scheduling

Laboratory Guides with modeling and control design examples

• 2 DOF helicopter configuration
  • Modeling
  • Linear state-space representation
  • State-feedback control
  • Coupled dynamics
• Half-quadrotor configuration
  • Modeling
  • Simple yaw control
  • Kalman filter

The following additional components are required to complete your workstation, and are sold separately:

For USB QFLEX Panel

• QUARC® add-on for MATLAB®/Simulink®

For NI myRIO QFLEX Panel

• NI myRIO embedded device

For Embedded QFLEX Panel

• Microprocessor (e.g. Arduino, Raspberry Pi)