Has anyone succesfully programed the Gyro?

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Posted by Travis Covington at 03/28/2001 1:05 AM EST


Student on team #115, MVRT, from Monta Vista High School and 3com - NASA-Xilinx-Hitachi Data Systems.


In Reply to: Has anyone succesfully programed the Gyro?
Posted by Anthony S. on 03/27/2001 8:50 PM EST:



this year we came up with a way of integrating the gyro and a pendulum as well as a speedometer/odometer to balance us on the ramp..
it was cool enough to get us the honeywell leadership in control award at the silicon valley regional

its fairly simple..

pendulum senses the direction of the robot (which way its heading up the ramp)..
operator presses "auto balance" button
robot drives UP the ramp until the gyro senses the tip..
the bot then stops, and drives backwards

if the ramp is still not centered on the pendulum it will repeat the prog (always driving uphill :-)

the odometer/speedometer allows us to go up the ramp at a constant determined velocity wehter we carry 1 or 2 goals...it also allows us to determine how far we drive backwards after the tiping is sensed..

that is the basic concept...(kinda..i dont really know since im the mechanical guy)

and i dont know the calculus they had to use to integrate the pendulum and the gyro..

it works too!! technically

any questions...ill try to answer