The aerospace engineering and engineering mechanicals undergraduate controls laboratory at the University of Texas, Austin, is open to juniors and seniors who have completed a feedback controls systems course and are ready to apply their understanding of classical and state space control theory in the lab. University of Texas Lecturer and Principle Engineer of Controls and Simulation at National Instruments, Jeannie Falcon, Ph.D., shows us around and demonstrates the experimental hardware of the lab, including a linear translational plant and a control loop system that operates on linear quadratic regulator (LQR) control allowing students to do state feedback and LQR control.
