Geovany Araújo Borges, D.Sc.
Professor Adjunto - Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica - UnB
 

Control Systems

Design and control of an inverted pendulum
(from august 2003 to june 2004)

  • Members:
    • Geovany Araújo Borges
    • Carlos Alberto Cascão Júnior (B.Sc. student, Mechatronics Eng., concluded).
  • Goals: Build a laboratory platform for evaluation of linear and non-linear real-time control techniques.
  • Activities: Mechanical design of an inverted pendulum mounted on a cart, PC-based instrumentation and interfacing through parallel port, Linux/RTAI real-time control.
  • Documents:
    • Carlos Alberto Cascão Júnior, "Estação de trabalho para experimentos de controle de processos em tempo real", Scientific Initiation Program Report, junho 2004. (PDF) (in brazilian portuguese).
  • Photos:
Inverted pendulum system
Pendulum
Interface board