- Arbin battery testing system
The team is equipped with an 8-channel ARBIN BT-Smart battery testing system. The battery testing system enables to offline test the battery with defined loading profiles. We also have a temperature chamber that can be connected to the battery testing system to evaluate battery health under different conditions.
- Power electronics control system
The system consists of dSPACE ds1103, A chroma 6KVA programmable AC source 6463-2, A chorma 62050H-600S programmable DC power supply with photovoltaic simulation, two sets of Sindopower three phase rectifier + inverter, and other Peripheral equipment for design control systems for high quality power supplies.
- Cable/Wire testing system
The system consists of ADC, DAC, mixer, data pattern generator, oscilloscopes, signal generators, data acquisition, and their associated software. The system is able to test and verify the diagnostic and prognostic algorithms for power cable in power generation and delivery and communication cable in aircraft, automobiles, and communication networks.
- Rotating machinery testing system
The testing system can test bearing with changing rotating speed, load, with sensing of accelerometer, acoustic emission, velocity measurement supported by NI data acquisition.
- Unmanned vehicles
The team has Educoptors (EduQuad360 Quadrotors), which is able to conduct both indoor and outdoor flights. It is equipped with the Spektrum-Dx8 radio transmitter, the 3DR radio tel emetry kit for wireless communication, the CCD camera, and the GPS, etc. The inertial measurement unit (IMU) is temperature calibrated, which ensures uniform performance at a wide range of temperatures (0 to +50C). The minimal takeoff weight is around 500g with a flight-time of 12-14 minutes. The maximum takeoff weight up to 1000g. The maximum vertical speed is around 5m/s and the maximum horizontal speed is around 15m/s.
RD-100 hexacopters (550mm frame width), which uses DJI 2212 Motors, E300 15A ESC, and Thunder Power LiPo Battery 4S 5400mAh 25C. RD-100 is equipped with sensors such as accelerometers, angular rate, magnetometer, barometer, mounted high-resolution cameras, and GPS, and supports up to 8 high speed PWM channels with independently controlled duty cycle.
Turtlebot 3 Waffle TX2, which is a modified version of the Turtlebot3 Waffle Pi. The modified platform retains all of the functionality of the original, including full autonomy, robotic operating system (ROS) enabled, simulation capability in Gazebo, and modularity with room for additional levels while adding the additional support and processing power of the Jetson TX2, and the vision/object detection capabilities of the ZED Stereo Camera.
PIONEER 3-AT all terrain mobile robots, as the testbed for mission planning, navigation, control. The P3-AT has an LPC-480PCI on-board microcontroller with NI PCI-6229 DAQ board, holds up to 3 batteries, sonar array for obstacle sensing, gyroscope and camera for sensors to perform guidance and navigation.
- Computing and modeling facilities
The team has computers equipped with GPU for deep learning training, various oscilloscopes and signal generators, various embedded systems (Jetson AG Orin, NVIDIA Jetson TX2, Jetson Nano, Xilinx ML510 development board), and software including Matlab/Simulink with a number of toolbox. The laboratory has the Generic Transport Model (GTM)Simulink model and the Commercial Modular Aero-Propulsion System Simulation (C-MAPSS) model.