March 26, 2007

A Cruise Control System

Garrett Hamilton - Smith; Will Norris; Ashish Dighe; Raihan Khondker

Autotuning PID Controllers using MRAC (Model Reference Adaptive Control) Techniques

Dhanushan Balachandreswaran; Shandesh Jeyaratnam; Krishanth Logeswaran

March 27, 2007

Modelling an Automatic Bus Suspension System Using Matlab

Julie Nkanta; Vivian Hsieh; Sun Hao

Proportional Controllers: Direct Method for Stability Analysis and MATLAB Implementation

Kanchan Gill; Ying nan Chen 

Systèmes de Contrôle Expliqué au Niveau Collégial (Control Systems for CEGEP Students)

Nicholas Beaudoin; Olivia Estienne

Automotive Gas Turbine

David McMeekin, Andre Viel, Luc Pellerin

Title

Dipankar Sharma

Robust Control System

Mohamed Ebada

Passivity Base Control for Switch Reluctance Motors

Charles Chen; Bin Ke; Yi Meng Duan

Tanker Ship Fuzzy Navigation System – Compared to other Conventional Controllers

Akhil Chanden; Steve Jia; Prasanna Balasingam

pH Level controller

Rafay Syed and Mohammed Abdelghani

Project Presentations and Paper Format

Presentation

• Your project presentation is a comprehensive draft of the joint effort for the study you have conducted during the past few weeks.

• All group members must contribute in developing, writing, and presenting this powerpoint presentation.

• The name of all group members, name of the TA, and the professor should go on the first page of the powerpoint presentation.

• The grade you will receive on this presentation will be assigned based on your contribution and delivery of the information.

• You need to submit a digital copy of the presentation to the professor (by email) at least 24 hours before the presentation.

• This presentation is worth 10 marks and is due on either Wednesday March 28th or Tuesday March 29th or April 4th or April 5th, 2007 depending on the date your group has been assigned to present.

• You must state the problem clearly while developing your presentation and you must have a clearly stated hypothesis.

• You must include at least 5 references (peer reviewed journals) in the introduction of your presentation. In presenting these references, you need to talk about what the authors of the articles have done.

• You must have a clear and a well thought out methodology. In your methods section you need to include your group members, their contribution; procedures; and tool used to accomplish the work.

• Conclude your presentation by discussing the outcomes of your investigation and the limitations that you have encountered.

• You will be allocated 15 minutes in total: 10 for the presentation and 5 for the questions.

Final Paper Format

• Your final report should be written according to IEEE format.

• Maximum number of pages is 5.

• Figures or tables may be either a full page wide (up to 181 mm) or one column wide (up to 88 mm wide).

• The minimum figure size should be no smaller than about 76 mm wide by 51 mm high.

• Use correct section and subsection headings .

• Your paper must include: Abstract; Introduction; Theory and Methods; Discussion; Conclusion; and References.

• Your paper must appear in double column format.  You may use the template that can be downloaded from this web site (http://www.ascinc.org/ManuscriptPrep.asp).