UC Berkeley
ME102 - Fall 2008
Inverted Pendulum
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Project Description
Project History, Methods, and Results
The Team Members
Video and Photos
Welcome to the site of the Fall 2008 ME 102 Inverted Pendulum Team.
In our web site, you will find the motivation behind our project,
detail description of our product, and our project evolution and timeline.
Additionally, there is a multimedia section that has some photographs and videos of our project.
Mission Statement
First and foremost, the goal of our project is to integrate
the knowledge that we have acquired as mechanical engineering
undergraduate students into a working electromechanical system.
Using the theories of dynamics, controls, electronics, and
stellar machine shop practices, we decided to construct a project
that would be a culmination of our time spent at UC Berkeley.
The inverted pendulum is a classic problem of dynamics and controls.
The inherently unstable equilibrium of the system provides a staple
problem of control theory. The goal of the project is to have a
self-balancing robot by programming a microcontroller using PID controllers.
