Development of didactic set of pneumatics and servo pneumatics in Engineering Education

Abstract

Control of the work piece position is one of the most difficult and most common problems in manufacturing. This problem is in most cases solved by using an electric axis with a servo or step motor, servo pneumatic or classical pneumatic components. Having this in mind, a didactic set for controlling the work piece position in vertical tubes has been developed and will be described in this paper. This system has been realized by using servo pneumatics and classical pneumatics. In this system, feedback was used for controlling the work piece position in a servo pneumatic system. The feedback was obtained by using a photoelectric sensor. The developed system is a part of the laboratory equipment used by undergraduate and graduate students in the Industrial Engineering and Mechatronics study programme at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, as well as by individuals who already work in industry. This didactic set encourages active participation of students in class and helps them with their tasks, which include learning about the structure of the set and the way of controlling the work piece position.