Hot glue guns are pretty simple beasts: there’s an on/off switch, a heating element, and a source of current, be it battery or wired. You turn it on, and the heater starts warming up; eventually you ...

Plant engineers and technicians are frequently asked to tune the controller when a control loop’s process value has prolonged or significant excursions from the set point. But in many instances, no ...

It is a running gag around here that whenever a project posts, someone will inevitably point out that it could have been done ...

Abstract: Dear Editor, This letter investigates a low-complexity data-driven adaptive proportional-integral-derivative (APID) control scheme to address the output tracking problem of a class of ...

Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, commonly referred to as quadcopters, have grown in popularity recently because of their accessibility and adaptability. Quadcopters have a wide range of ...

The design folder contains MATLAB code that can be used to replicate the results of the controller design process outlined in this blog post here: https://mechmotum ...