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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Design and Implementation of a Ball-Plate Control System and Python Script for Educational Purposes in STEM Technologies.

Vladimir Tudić, Damir Kralj, Josip Hoster, Tomislav Tropčić

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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0citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vladimir TudićDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Karlovac University of Applied Sciences, 47000 Karlovac, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-5089-1732
Damir KraljDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Karlovac University of Applied Sciences, 47000 Karlovac, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-2596-3554
Josip HosterDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Karlovac University of Applied Sciences, 47000 Karlovac, Croatia.
Tomislav TropčićDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Karlovac University of Applied Sciences, 47000 Karlovac, Croatia.
Karlovac University of Applied Sciences · HR

Funding

"Atrium of Knowledge" project co-financed by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund and the Operational Programme "Competitiveness and Cohesion" (OPCC) 2014 - 2020 KK.01.1.1.02.0005
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents the process of designing, fabricating, assembling, programming and optimizing a prototype nonlinear mechatronic Ball-Plate System (BPS) as a laboratory platform for engineering education STEM. Due to the nonlinearity and complexity of BPS, the task presents challenges such as: (1) difficulty in controlling the stabilization of a particular position point, known as steady-state error, (2) position resolution, known as specific distance error, and (3) adverse environmental effects-light-shadow error, which is also discussed in this paper. The laboratory prototype BPS for education was designed, manufactured and installed at Karlovac University of Applied Sciences in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics program. The low-cost two-degree BPS uses a USB HD camera for computer vision as a feedback sensor and two DC servo motors as actuators. Due to control problems, an advanced block diagram of the control system is proposed and discussed. An open-source control system based on Python scripts, which allows the use of ready-made functions from the library, allows the color of the ball and the parameters of the PID controller to be changed, indirectly simplifying the control system and performing mathematical calculations directly. The authors will continue their research on this BPS mechatronic platform and control algorithms.

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AlgorithmsComputersFeedbackBall-Plate SystemPID controllerPython scriptsready-made functionsSTEMUSB HD camera

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PMID35271021
PMCPMC8914722
OpenAlexW4214653435

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