Aaron Klapheck's Website

• Date I took this class:   Spring 2009
• Teacher:                       Jose Granda
• Teacher's site:              http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~grandajj
• Grade earned:              A
• Book used:                  System Dynamics: Modeling and Simulation of Mechatronic Systems By Dean C. Karnopp

Professor Granda is, overall, a teacher with a unique teaching style.
Granda is involved in NASA and has access to information on various exciting projects and missions.
Granda is usually willing to take time to help individual students.
Granda assigns homework from the text at the beginning of the semester. Those who can do the homework get good grades.
Granda has lab assignments which involve the subjects we are learning. Those who put enough time into the lab assignments should be able to understand them.
Granda's tests are similar to those in the book and in-class discussions. All those who do the homework should complete the tests.
The System Dynamics text is required and is referred to in class. Virtually all homework is assigned from this text.

The following contains work done to model an electrical circuit and to determine the systems behavior

• Schematic - The electrical system shown in schematic form
• Bond Graph - The electrical system shown in bong graph form
• Bond Graph - The current, voltage, momentum, and charge through the 0.8 F capacitor

The following contains work done for quiz 1

• The Problem - The quiz the teacher handed out (PDF format)
• Bond Graph - The system entered into MATLAB (PDF format)

The following is a mass spring project to give students an idea of what controls and modeling are really about.

• Mass-spring-damper system - Muti-method solution to a MSD problem (PDF format)

The Propeller Controlled MiniMover 5.

The MiniMover 5 Project contains detailed information about the hardware, software, and mathematical representations of the MiniMover 5

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