Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
This HVAC trainer teaches students how to design a control system that regulates temperature in a chamber. The trainer features a chamber equipped with a temperature sensor, heat source, and fan. The experiments illustrates concepts covered in fluid dynamics and thermodynamics control courses.
Control techniques studied:
- Tracking Control & Regulation
- Disturbance Rejection
- PID Controller Design
- Robust Control
- (H-infinity, µ-Synthesis, Sliding Mode)
- Intelligent Control
- (Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, AI)
- State-Space Design
- (State-Feedback, Observer)
- Frequency Analysis
- (Bode and Nyquist Methods, Lead-Lag)
- Root Locus Design
- Multivariable Control Design
- System Modeling & Simulation
- (Coupled Dynamics)
- System Identification (MISO)
- Discrete Time Sampling