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myBall & Beam: Classic Control Experiment

asloane
NI Employee (retired)
‎03-04-2015 12:57 PM
‎03-04-2015 12:57 PM

Hello Circuit Designers,

I wanted to let everyone know about some great work done by one of our interns from the University of Manchester working at National Instruments in the UK.  myBall & Beam is based on the classic ball balancing systems control using myRIO as the controller, Multisim for schematic design and Ultiboard for PCB layout.

ball and beam.jpg

myBall & Beam uses an IR sensor to continuously detect the ball's current position and a servo to control the tilt of the beam. This information is analyzed on the myRIO's embedded processor to provide feedback to the system. To check out the full project with schematics, PCB layout and code visit this location.

Ball and beam schematic.jpg

Campbell B

National Instruments

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