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Furuta Pendulum

Stablizing an inverted pendulum with rotary dynamics

Supervisor

Dr. Ellen Yi Chen Mazumdar

Description

For a final project for ME4012, Motion Systems (an advanced control systems course), I created a Furuta Pendulum. A Furuta Pendulum is an inverted pendulum that obtains balance through precise rotations in order to counteract the effects of gravity.

Please click here for our project report (and equations of motion) and here for a demo of the final Furuta Pendulum.