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Stand-Alone Quanser Experiment: Two Inverted Pendulums

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Uploaded by on Oct 8, 2009

This representation is one of a kind !

What you see is an example of modern engineering, when an educational kit is taken to the next level.
As you can see there are two verry different pendullums working in tandem, there is a master and a slave, the slave follows the path of the master at the same time keeping its equilibrium.

The two pendullums have different mathematical models but are driven intetionally by the same code, thus prooving its flexibility.

Basicly the concept of stand-alone is prooven. The experiments works as long as the computer is on.
This experiment is not controlled by a dedicated Quanser Multi Q PCI Dev Board, thus eliminating the proprietary RTI and all the calculations needed to keep the pendullums up is done on the board itself rather than using the CPU inside the PC, so I only need Matlab to start the experiment, after that I can any running program. Matlab is only used to download the code to the controller.

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  • @BestQuanserVideos Thank you for the comment and for the nice words, this project was my end of college, diploma project, and to be honest I was inspired by Quanser directly, when one representative demoed an inverted pendulum was erected and controlled using a nintendo wiimote.

    Even though this project wasn't 100% Quanser (I used a dSpace dev-board and targetlink), but that only proves the flexibility of your design. Hope you enjoyed watching my work.

  • Wow - what a wonderful video! You have inspired the Quanser team, we love the music.

    For the past 22 years, we have been asking the question: 'how do we help teach control theory to engineering students more effectively?'

    Any feedback from your end is much appreciated!

    (pun intended) ;)

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