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The author would like to give special thanks to the following people
for code enhancements, beta testing, and general feedback:
- Jihao Luo, Ph.D.: Dr. Luo has ardently used RTiC-Lab since
revision 0.4.0 and has provided valuable feedback on the performance,
utility, and overall general appearance of RTiC-Lab. Dr. Luo has used
RTiC-Lab for the suspension of a five degree of freedom,
lb
magnetically suspended, high speed flexible rotor. His necessary
sampling rates have continued to push the RTiC-Lab envelope and
consequently has made RTiC-Lab a very robust controller implementation
platform.
- Jun-Ho Lee, Ph.D.: Dr. Lee has been using RTiC-Lab since
revision 0.4.3. He has bravely used RTiC-Lab on control of a simple
SISO magnetically suspended balance beam test bench, and more recently
is applying RTiC-Lab towards the control of a five degree of freedom
magnetically suspended artificial heart. His general input has been
extremely valuable.
- Robert Bartlett, Ph.D.: Dr. Bartlett's generous funding and
support have allowed RTiC-Lab to become a reality.
- Paul Allaire, Ph.D.: Dr. Allaire provided the different
platforms and magnetic bearing systems on which RTiC-Lab has been
tested. His need for better, easier, and faster controller
implementation platforms spurred the interest for a platform such as
RTiC-Lab. His need for smarter controllers in the magnetic bearings
and rotor-dynamic fields have helped to shape the development of
RTiC-Lab both for event driven and clocked controllers. Furthermore,
his need for a faster controls implementation platform have forced
RTiC-Lab to be as lightweight as possible, thus allowing RTiC-Lab to
be a controls implementation platform which can be used in a wide
array of projects.
- Marty Humphrey, Ph.D.: Dr. Humphrey has provided valuable time
and insight which have made RTiC-Lab a stronger controller
implementation platform.
- Victor Yodaiken, Ph.D.: Dr. Yodaiken's team at the New Mexico
Institute of Technology has made hard real time control in Linux
possible. Without his efforts, RTiC-Lab would never have been a
reality.
- Frank Mehnert: Mr. Mehnert's team at Dresden University have
used RTiC-Lab to evaluate different hard real time implementations for
Linux. His efforts have helped me identify NMT's Real Time Linux as
the most predictable implementation of hard real time for Linux.
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Michael Barabanov
2001-06-19