Design and Development of a Low Cost Rapid Control Prototyping System Applied to an Air Suspension System

A low cost and easy to use rapid control prototyping system which is based on the Arduino Uno, Matlab/Simulink and hardware- and software-add-ons is introduced. Design and development of the hardware- and software-add-ons is described and the rapid control prototyping system is applied to an air suspension system. A mathematical model of the air suspension system is deduced and on its base a suitable controller is designed and tested with software in the loop and experimental validation.