Vex Inverted Pendulum Balance Robot v1.0

You asked for it! This two wheel inverted pendulum Bbot robot uses all vex kit parts except these sensors:
a)Spark 5 axis IMU: 2 rate gyro, 3 axis acccelerometer. I only used 1 rate gyro and 1 accelerometer axis. ($100)
b) US Digital MA3-A-b6 absolute analog encoders. ($35 per wheel). No interrupts are necessary, used the 10bit a/d vex processor inputs.

Software MPLAB, Includes remote control with heading stabilization.

More info at Vex Forum http://www.vexforum.com/showthread.php?t=1593
Chris S.
Mentor RoboDox Team 599 , Granada Hills, Ca.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Pendulum
• Inverted
• robot
• self
• balancing
• gyro
• accelerometer
• imu
• robodox
• 599
• vex
• encoder
• bbot
• vamfun

[ruestir13]

that's pretty awesome you did this with a VEX kit. Great job.

[vamfun]

thanks, I'm working on a white paper to document the matlab model. I will post it on the Vex site soon.

[freetrader0000]

That is awsome! Especialy because you can use it on manual at the same time as it balances itself. I have a question. Where can I find mplab tutorials? I've been looking everywhere.

[brand1stylistic]

whoah, howd you do that??? haha that's awesome.

check out the videos of my robot, im entering it in the upcoming elevation competitions

[lorenzocolodette]

good video but were is the surprise?

[nope159270]

nice work