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Unread 05-05-2005, 19:21
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Re: Self-Balancing 2 Wheeled Robot

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
A feeler will work as long as the surface is flat and level. Without a true sense of "down", a Segway clone will want to accelerate downhill.
Yeah, I was thinking about that. So I might make a feeler design just to experience with using a pot as an angle measurement.

There's also a problem with the pendulum idea. If I am making constant adjustments to control the angle, then the pendulum will start swinging. The swinging will cause harder adjustments, which will just feed this repetition harder until the robot tips. I'm thinking of something along the classic pendulum lines, I'll try to make up a CAD drawing and post it later.
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