Category: Commercial Applications

Agricultural Sprayer Boom Height Control

Agricultural Sprayer Boom Height Control

This isn’t a fancy or particularly exotic control system example. I share it here because it sat in an old notebook as an example of fun modelling process. It involved two simple single-input, single-output (SISO) control loops with the dynamics of actuating one side coupled-through to the other via an uncontrolled, unobserved axis. I remember …

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Paper Slitter-Rewinder Edge Control Retrofit

Paper Slitter-Rewinder Edge Control Retrofit

A relocated paper web processing machine requires previously unused edge position control sub-system redesign and deployment to production. This article series covers system evaluation, control scheme prototyping, and production form factor system completion to production go-live.