Balancing Robot (UWE Bristol)

An updated version of a final year project for a degree in Robotics at the University of the West of England, UK. This robot dynamically balances on two wheels, like an inverted pendulum

I decided to completely re-build and re-code my project in less than 5 days. It turns out that I got it back to its previous state (in fact slightly improved) in less than 3 days. That gives me 2 more days to make it shine.

New body work too :-)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• UWE
• robot
• robotics
• balance
• mccabe
• PID
• balancing
• cool

[bilewinters]

It's not too difficult. You need a way of detecting what angle the robot is leaning, and something that can repeatedly check that angle, adjusting the speed of the motors to compensate. I used a PID controller loop for this robot (the wikipedia entry for PID should tell you everything you need). For detecting the angle I used an accelerometer and gyroscope, the same sensors used by iPhones and Wii remotes.

[Rukario19]

Good Work, thts a nice proyect, could you tell me please the procedure for doing one of these? i want to make one too