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Inverted Pendulum

Mechanical Engineering · Automatic Control

2022 Dec – 2023 Jan

ROLE

Programmer

TEAM

Ethan Chen, Howard Liu, Chiu-Chang Cheng, Zhuo-an Jiang, Willy Lin

TOOLS

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OVERVIEW

Aside from quizzes and exams, the automatic control course in my university requires us to make machines that involve automatic control. We did a poll to decide which of the three prompt my team needs to do. My team, as well as two other groups, drew the prompt — inverted pendulum. I was the sole programmer on our team.

Goal

The goal of the inverted pendulum prompt is to make the pendulum stay upright as long as possible.

Final Product

The machine comprises an Arduino Uno for programming, a motor for rotating the disc on top, and a gyro sensor for feedback.

Snapshot of our inverted pendulum.

Snapshot of our inverted pendulum.

Results

On the final test day, our machine was tested, and my team was awarded the best group doing the inverted pendulum prompt.

Our certificate of excellence.

Our certificate of excellence.

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Loosely designed in Figma and coded in Visual Studio Code by yours truly. Built with React Router and Tailwind CSS, deployed with Vercel. All text is set in the Inter typeface.

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