MagnetoShield: A Novel Open-Source Magnetic Levitation Benchmark Device for Mechatronics Education and Research
This article presents an open-source device illustrating the well-known magnetic levitation experiment. The uniqueness of this particular device lies in its exceptionally small dimensions, affordability and availability, which makes it a perfect design for take-home experiments for education but it...
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| author | Gergely Takács Jakub Mihalík Martin Gulan Anna Vargová Erik Mikuláš Štepán Ožana |
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| description | This article presents an open-source device illustrating the well-known magnetic levitation experiment. The uniqueness of this particular device lies in its exceptionally small dimensions, affordability and availability, which makes it a perfect design for take-home experiments for education but it can also serve as a referential design for testing various control algorithms in research. In addition, this paper provides a comprehensive hardware design for reproducibility along with the detailed derivation of the mathematical model, system identification and validation. Moreover, the introduced hardware comes with an easy-to-use open-source application programming interface in C/C++ for the Arduino IDE, Simulink and CircuitPython. REXYGEN, another environment similar to Simulink, had also been used to demonstrate the capabilities of the MagnetoShield. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-541a5d7cb5c84d4695385166028ff3232024-01-29T14:16:05ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202024-01-0124253810.3390/s24020538MagnetoShield: A Novel Open-Source Magnetic Levitation Benchmark Device for Mechatronics Education and ResearchGergely Takács0Jakub Mihalík1Martin Gulan2Anna Vargová3Erik Mikuláš4Štepán Ožana5AutomationShield.com Open-Source Initiative, 812 31 Bratislava, SlovakiaAutomationShield.com Open-Source Initiative, 812 31 Bratislava, SlovakiaAutomationShield.com Open-Source Initiative, 812 31 Bratislava, SlovakiaAutomationShield.com Open-Source Initiative, 812 31 Bratislava, SlovakiaAutomationShield.com Open-Source Initiative, 812 31 Bratislava, SlovakiaDepartment of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB—Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, 708 00 Ostrava, Czech RepublicThis article presents an open-source device illustrating the well-known magnetic levitation experiment. The uniqueness of this particular device lies in its exceptionally small dimensions, affordability and availability, which makes it a perfect design for take-home experiments for education but it can also serve as a referential design for testing various control algorithms in research. In addition, this paper provides a comprehensive hardware design for reproducibility along with the detailed derivation of the mathematical model, system identification and validation. Moreover, the introduced hardware comes with an easy-to-use open-source application programming interface in C/C++ for the Arduino IDE, Simulink and CircuitPython. REXYGEN, another environment similar to Simulink, had also been used to demonstrate the capabilities of the MagnetoShield.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/2/538magnetic levitationcontrol educationmechatronicsopen hardwareArduino |
| spellingShingle | Gergely Takács Jakub Mihalík Martin Gulan Anna Vargová Erik Mikuláš Štepán Ožana MagnetoShield: A Novel Open-Source Magnetic Levitation Benchmark Device for Mechatronics Education and Research Sensors magnetic levitation control education mechatronics open hardware Arduino |
| title | MagnetoShield: A Novel Open-Source Magnetic Levitation Benchmark Device for Mechatronics Education and Research |
| title_full | MagnetoShield: A Novel Open-Source Magnetic Levitation Benchmark Device for Mechatronics Education and Research |
| title_fullStr | MagnetoShield: A Novel Open-Source Magnetic Levitation Benchmark Device for Mechatronics Education and Research |
| title_full_unstemmed | MagnetoShield: A Novel Open-Source Magnetic Levitation Benchmark Device for Mechatronics Education and Research |
| title_short | MagnetoShield: A Novel Open-Source Magnetic Levitation Benchmark Device for Mechatronics Education and Research |
| title_sort | magnetoshield a novel open source magnetic levitation benchmark device for mechatronics education and research |
| topic | magnetic levitation control education mechatronics open hardware Arduino |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/2/538 |
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