108 Real-Time Implementation and Intelligent Position Control of a Mass-Spring-Damper System

In this research work classical PID, fuzzy logic, and fuzzy-PID was used to implement a real-time position control for a mass-spring-damper system manufactured by Educational Control Products (ECP) available in the laboratory. The simulation was also carried out in Labview and the results were compared to the actual implementation of the real-time system. These results proved to be satisfactory and the proposed position control was achieved. The experimental setup included the hardware and the software. The hardware part of the experiment used the above-mentioned system, servo amplifier, multiQ-3 data acquisition card, I/O (terminal) board. The software part consisted of Wincon software with Matlab/Simulink. The Wincon software has Real-time workshop, VC++ and Wincon server and client.