  The Astronomical Observatory of the Sergio Arboleda University (Bogota,
Colombia) has as main instrument a Torus Classic Cassegrain telescope. In order
to improve its precision and accuracy in the tracking of celestial objects, the
Torus telescope requires to be properly automated. The motors, drivers and
sensors of the telescope are modelled as a black-box systems and experimentally
identified. Using the identified model several control laws are developed such
as Proportional, Integral and Derivative (PID) control and State-feedback
control for the velocity and position tracking and disturbance-rejection tasks.
