Lab and computer access
For the course given Fall 2020, it will be possible to complete the projects without visiting the physical lab. The project-setup will either be possible to run completely remote, or you will be allowed to borrow the project-setup and run it at your place.
However, if a student group would like to have access to the lab where the setups are placed, this can be arranged. Please notify your project advisor in order to arrange with access.
The project-setups are be placed in Lab A (floor -1) at Kemicentrum, LTH.
If you need access to other locations (e.g. Robot Lab or our master thesis room), ask your advisor to contact Anders Blomdell for this. He will need your full name, student ID and e-mail. If you have previously had access to any rooms at Automatic Control, make sure to supply the same e-mail address that was used then. Please note that we only provide limited access to these locations during Fall2020.
Access to the lab corridor is handled by LU Service Desk. We have sometimes experienced delays with this, and it is important that you tell your group advisor in case you do not have access with your LU card. (Your advisor will then forward the issue to LU Service Desk via Mika Nishimura). You can contact her directly, but please also inform your advisor so that the teaching staff becomes aware of the issue.)
You log onto the lab computers using your LU student account Links to an external site. (previously called STiL account), which is the same account you use to access machines across campus.
If you experience problems with any of the above, notify your project advisor and she/he will help you sort it out.
Furuta devices
The furuta devices are set up in Lab A, and are accessible remotely via a web browser. Each device allows only one student to be using it at any one time, and to coordinate access we use microsoft teams. If you work with one of the pendulums, you should be invited to the team (send a message in Canvas to Johan Grönqvist if you are not).
You log in to teams.microsoft.com Links to an external site. using your lucat id followed by @lu.se, e.g., ab1234cd-s@lu.se as you username and after you are invited, you should find a team named FurutaProcess with a channel named "Process Usage". You could send messages when you start and stop using a computer. You will also find some jupyter notebooks there that provide good starting points for your work.
Access to and control of the devices use the same mechanism for remote access and for working from the lab. Potential advantages of working in the lab are
- You can look at the device instead of viewing it through a webcam that only shows one angle with a limited framerate.
- You can disturb the device physically, e.g., by hitting the pendulum arm with your hand.
- You do not need your own computer, but you can use those in the lab. (You can still bring your own computer and use it in the lab, as I would have done.)