A real-time controller built around the BeagleBone Black single-board computer. It was developed to support control-based continuation experiments, where low-latency feedback control is needed to stabilise unstable periodic orbits in physical rigs. MATLAB and Python interfaces are available.

The RTC provides functionality comparable to commercial real-time control hardware (e.g., dSPACE) at a fraction of the cost, making it accessible for university laboratory settings.

See the GitHub page for the code. If you are interested in using or adapting it for your own experiments, please get in touch.