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MAKER: Designing and Building the Classical Inverted Pendulum on a Cart

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Virtual On line

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June 22, 2020

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June 22, 2020

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June 26, 2021

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Advances in Additive, Hybrid, and Digital Manufacturing Education

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Manufacturing

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7

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10.18260/1-2--34939

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Khalifa H. Harib United Arab Emirates University

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Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan United Arab Emirates University

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Dr Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan – Siva is a Srilankan by birth and a citizen of the United Kingdom. His experience in Sri-lanka started with an year’s post-graduate apprenticeship in the manufacturing shops of the Government Railway and nine years in the Cement Industry. He graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from University of Srilanka, and obtained his Masters from the University of Aston and PhD from City University of London, both in the UK. He started his career in the UK as the Senior Research Assistant at the SERC Engineering Design Centre. He joined Brunel University in 1995 where he worked for 18 years before joining United Arab Emirates University in August 2011. During his stay at Brunel he has worked with many British industries. Dr Sivaloganathan is a keen researcher in Design and was the Convenor for the International Engineering Design Conferences in 1998 and 2000. He has been a regular participant of the ASEE annual conference during the past few years. He has published more than 85 papers in reputed journals and conferences.

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Adewale Oriyomi Oseni United Arab Emirates University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-3036-2534

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Oseni Adewale is a PhD student at the United Arab Emirates University. He obtained his B.Eng. (Mechanical Engineering) and M.Sc. (Mechatronics Engineering) from the Federal University of Technology, Yola, Nigeria in 2013 and University of Debrecen, Hungary in 2019 respectively. His research interests include Dynamics, Control, Robotics and Mechatronic Systems.

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Abstract

MAKER: Designing and Building the Classical Inverted Pendulum on a Cart The inverted pendulum system is an example commonly found in control system textbooks and research literature. Due to the presence of interesting dynamical characteristics associated with the system including nonlinearity, instability, and under-actuation, balancing of an inverted pendulum on a cart is a classical problem used in teaching control engineering. The objective of the control system is to balance the inverted pendulum by applying a force to the cart that the pendulum is attached to. Furthermore, building an, experimental setup for hands-on teaching of mechatronics control engineering, is possible using low-cost resources. In the setup to be presented, we have taken the problem to a higher level by increasing the degrees-of-freedom in the system. In the presented setup, the pendulum has two measured but unactuated degrees of freedom relative to the cart. The cart in turn is actuated along two directions in the horizontal plane. An Arduino based controller is used to stabilize the pendulum in upright position while moving the cart remotely. The project is done as a senior design graduation project by an interdisciplinary team consisting of four students from the departments of mechanical and electrical engineering at an international university. The special features and challenging parts of the project, the students’ experience and the lessons learnt from the project will be described in the paper. The prototype will show the achievements in the project.

Harib, K. H., & Sivaloganathan, S., & Oseni, A. O. (2020, June), MAKER: Designing and Building the Classical Inverted Pendulum on a Cart Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34939

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