Overview

An essential part of the engineering curriculum at IIST is the Control Systems Lab, which focuses on the real-world implementation of control theory and systems engineering. Students can gain practical experience in building, evaluating, and implementing control systems in this lab. Control systems are essential in many fields, such as industrial automation, robotics, and aerospace.

Goals

The Control Systems Laboratory's main goals are to:

• Know Control Theory: Introduce pupils to important ideas including feedback, stability, and control algorithms.
• Practical Implementation: Provide students with the tools—hardware and software—to design and test control systems.
• Analyze system responses and validate theoretical models through experimentation.
• Research and Development: Promote creativity and the ability to solve problems in practical contexts.

Tools and Equipment:

The laboratory is furnished with an array of instruments and technologies, comprising:

• Simulation software: Programs for modeling and simulating control systems, such as MATLAB and Simulink.
• Microcontrollers: Development boards used to develop embedded control systems, such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
• Actuators and sensors are devices that carry out control actions and measure system variables.
• Systems for gathering and evaluating experimental data are known as data acquisition systems.

Major equipments in this lab includes

• Inverted pendulum.
• Double inverted pendulum
• Magnetic levitation
• Servo Trainer kit
• Precision servo system
• 3D Gyro
• Hexapod
• Unmanned Arial Vehicle systems
• Couple tank systems
• Active mass spring suspension systems
• Twin rotor MIMO systems
• Torsional plant
• Rectilinear Plant