Ball Bot Project
Alongside 2 electrical engineering undergraduate students at UCLA, we acquired funding for the ball bot robot idea we found interesting. Through this project, I gained exposure to controls and system modeling as well as honing my design abilities as a mechanical engineer. I was fully responsible for the mechanical design of the robot chassis as well as calculating motor torque requirements. I also contributed to modeling our complex inverted pendulum system to be able to implement our LQR controller. This project took us only 3 months to complete.
Ground up design of robot chassis
motor mount and electrical component mounting to optimize for sensor integration
Modelled dynamic system
Converted to state space representation
Live data showing our system response to a measure angle change in our tower as determined by our IMU
Video of our most successful run
lasted 10 seconds before human interference