EE3CL4: Laboratories

Arrangements for performance assessment in the laboratories

• The laboratories will be performed in groups of two students.

• Each lab will involve a significant amount of pre-lab work. You may submit one pre-lab report per group, or you can submit your own pre-lab, should you so wish.
• The pre-lab work will be assessed at the beginning of the lab. The penalties for late pre-lab work are as follows
  • Pre-lab received by TAs before 2:45pm: No penalty
  • Pre-lab received by TAs between 2:45pm and 3:00pm: A penalty of 50% of the awarded mark will be applied
  • Pre-lab not submitted before 3:00pm: No marks will be awarded for the pre-lab component, but you will be allowed to attempt the experiments
• The TAs and the instructor reserve the right to interview students to assess their understanding of the pre-lab material. Such interviews will be held at random and we reserve the right to adjust the pre-lab mark based on the outcome of the interview.

• Your performance of the experiments described in the lab will be assessed through an interview process with a TA, during which you will demonstrate the outcome of the experiment. The TAs will ask questions which probe your understanding of the experiment and the outcome, and they will assess your work based on your responses.
• The laboratories will end at 5:30pm. If you are unable to complete an experiment by that time, you will not receive the marks for that component of the laboratory.

• Students who have requested accommodation for a missed lab through the MSAF system must bring a copy of the MSAF form and a confirmation email from the instructor in order to receive marks for a laboratory completed on a day other than the student's regularly scheduled day.

• The laboratories constitute an important component of the course, and, as such, the content of the labs is examinable in the midterm test and the final exam.

Laboratory Instructions

• Lab 1: System Identification Starts Monday 23 January 2012.
  
  • Instructions updated:
    • 22 January 2012:
      Minor adjustment to familiarization exercise in Section 2.2. Adjusted wording of questions 6 and 7 to emphasize that the intent is that you derive these expressions for yourselves.
    • 18 January 2012:
      Only a minor change to the layout to improve clarity. The content remains the same.
  • The appendix to Lab 1 is available here

• Lab 2: Proportional control of servo-mechanism Starts Monday 6 February 2012.
  
  • Pre-lab
  • Experiments

• Lab 3: Lead control of servo-mechanism Starts Monday 5 March 2012.
  

• Lab 4: Lag control of servo-mechanism Starts Monday 18 March 2012.
  Note: The description of the experiment in Section 4.2.3 is subject to change.

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