Exploring the role of a smartphone as a motion sensing and control device in the wireless networked control of a motor test-bed

Jared A. Frank, Anthony Brill, Jonghyun Bae, Vikram Kapila

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Abstract

The sensing, computing, and control potential of smartphones remains to be fully explored in automatic control applications. In this paper, we control the angular position of a motor test-bed using feedback from the embedded motion sensors of a smartphone while it is mounted to the test-bed. The smartphone hosts an interactive user interface which students and researchers can use to quickly and easily perform experiments with the test-bed and collect measurements using their own personal devices. Proportional-plus-derivative (PD) controllers designed using a sampled-data model of the system are compared for different sampling rates used on the smartphone. Results from simulations and experiments confirm the feasibility of utilizing mounted smartphones in the wireless networked control of systems with rotational degrees of freedom.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationICINCO 2015 - 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Proceedings
EditorsJoaquim Filipe, Joaquim Filipe, Kurosh Madani, Oleg Gusikhin, Jurek Sasiadek
PublisherSciTePress
Pages328-335
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9789897581236
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, ICINCO 2015 - Colmar, Alsace, France
Duration: Jul 21 2015Jul 23 2015

Publication series

NameICINCO 2015 - 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Proceedings
Volume2

Other

Other12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, ICINCO 2015
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityColmar, Alsace
Period7/21/157/23/15

Keywords

  • Attitude sensing
  • Motor control
  • Networked control system
  • Smartphone sensors
  • Wireless

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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