Hydraulic Rotary Actuators

Instrumentation engineers and techs should carefully size reserve bottles used for valve actuators to ensure that these valves will be able to stroke a sufficient number of times without any supply from the air header. Bryce Elliott wrote an excellent article for the January 2009 edition of ISA's... Platforms: Mac

PackCol performs hydraulic designs for new packed columns or rating calculations for existing columns and towers. The design basis can be approach to flood, maximum capacity or pressure drop. Includes a database of packing types, but custom data can be used. The Eckert and Robbins correlations... Platforms: Windows

CWSNet was specially designed as a handy and Open Source library for hydraulic simulation of pressurized pipe networks. It is written in C++ using an object-oriented programming (OOP) model, and it is designed to have a modular structure. The library can be easily extended by adding new... Platforms: Windows

The Open1451 Project provides a repository for implementations, examples, and applications of the IEEE 1451 Standard for a Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors and Actuators. Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

The ThermoFluid library is a free open source physical model library for thermo hydraulic models in the Modelica modeling language. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

It is based on theories and techniques like optimal control, observability, controllability and Lyapunov stability. Requirements: - MATLAB 7.5 or higher - MATLAB's Control System Toolbox Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Matlab, BSD Solaris

There are two models in this submission.1. trafficpatterns - a simple model of vehicular traffic on four roads all leading to an intersection controlled by a traffic light. It turns green for each of the four paths with specified durations. Tweak the traffic light durations to study how much... Platforms: Matlab

The remarkable advance in hydraulic and electrohydraulic power systems resulted in producing control valves of very short settling time. The rapid closure of hydraulic transmission lines leads to severe pressure surge. The attached Simulink file is developed to evaluate the applicability of... Platforms: Matlab

Sheet Rolling Mill processes involve progressive thickness reduction of continuous sheet metal in multiple stages. Some of the control variables of interest are exit thickness, throughput and the tension in the sheet as it passes from one stage to the other. Following page has links to the... Platforms: Matlab

It is based on theories and techniques like optimal control, observability, controllability and Lyapunov stability. Platforms: Matlab

Lasers! is a cell-based puzzle game in which the object is to destroy targets of different colors by shooting them with lasers of matching colors. Players position actuators (mirrors, etc) of various types to enable a level to be solved. Obstacles and enemies make the game a bit more challenging. Platforms: *nix

RobotFlow is a mobile robotics tookit based on FlowDesigner. The visual programming interface provided with FlowDesigner will help people to better visualize & understand what is really happening in the robot's control loops, sensors and actuators. Platforms: *nix

20-sim is an advanced modeling and simulation package for Windows. With 20-sim you can simulate the behavior of dynamic systems, such as electrical, mechanical and hydraulic systems or any combination of these. 20-sim models may use iconic diagrams, bond graphs, block diagrams as well as... Platforms: Windows

OTR Trading has made this winch load calculator available to you for you to work out the load that a 4x4 winch would take based on the parameters you feed it. You can use this 4x4 winch load calculator on an electric or hydraulic winch scenario. You enter your vehicles Total Weight and Load... Platforms: Windows

Virgil projetc is an new, object-oriented, light-weight programming language that is designed for building software for resource-constrained embedded systems at the lowest level. Microcontroller programmers can now develop complete software systems, including hardware drivers and OS services, in... Platforms: *nix

Paranormal is an extremely customizable (pseudo-programmable) audio visualization library, based (conceptually) on Winamps AVS plugin. Paranormals goal is to be as flexible as possible by providing a number of actuators that perform various tasks involved in generating an image. These actuators... Platforms: *nix

Ishtar provides a network toolbox for C++ programs. Ishtar is a set of three C++ libraries that provide useful classes for networked applications. It features basic serialization, a protocol for remote procedure call (RPC), network accessible variables, and hierarchical config files. A client... Platforms: *nix

20-sim is an advanced modeling and simulation package for your operating system. With 20-sim you can simulate the behavior of dynamic systems, such as electrical, mechanical and hydraulic systems or any combination of these. 20-sim models may use iconic diagrams, bond graphs, block diagrams as... Platforms: Windows

S4A is an easy to use application specially designed to offer users a a Scratch modification that supports simple programming of the Arduino open source hardware platform. It provides new blocks for managing sensors and actuators connected to Arduino. There is also a sensor report board similar... Platforms: Windows

AmpliTube 3. The New King of Tone. More Gear. More Feel. More Power. More Tone. Theres a new king in tone, and its name is AmpliTube 3. A massive upgrade of the leading guitar and bass tone gear modeling software, AmpliTube 3 raises the industry standard of sound variety, realism and creative... Platforms: Mac