Recent content by Pipsqueakalchemist

thing is I'm trying to implement not just a PID control but an LQR controller. I want to develop the best model I can to get the best performance and get my simulation to behave as much like my hardware. I feel like getting a good model is also good practice to develop my overall skills as a...

Hello, the purpose is to balance the pendulum, I'm correctly trying to develop a better model of the system in simulink. I'm trying to run some step response experiments and try to model the nema17 motor as a 2nd order system. Then try to run some additional experiments and try to use mat labs...

I'm trying to work on a rotary inverted pendulum project. I have an image of it below where most of the stuff is 3D printed. My electronics is NEMA17 stepper, ESP32 devkit v1, TMC2208 v1.2, and AS5600 encoder for pendulum sensing. I was planning to use the accelstepper library to keep track of...

[Mentor Note: Duplicate thread start merged into the original thread] Hello so as the summary suggests, I'm trying to develop a controls system to control the angular position of an inverted pendulum. After doing some experiment today using a PID controller to control both propellers to keep...

Hello I'm trying to model a controls system. The issue I'm having is that the equation of motion and taking the Laplace transform and obtaining the transfer function is computationally difficult. I'm new to this so I don't know which software tools to use. I've heard about Matlab and python. I...

Hello, I think I obtained the equations of motion of my system. I'm trying to perform pole placement control so for that I need to obtain the transfer function. But the problem is that the equations are very nasty and large so by hand is very difficult, would it also be possible to use Matlab to...

Hello so as the summary suggests I'm trying to develop a controls system model of an inverted pendulum cart system with 2 propellers on top of the pendulum. I'm trying to obtain the equations of motion and I was wondering if I should include the impulse disturbances forces when trying to develop...

My inspiration for this whole programming journey is actually Eric barons the creator of stardew valley

Oh don't worry, I know more than some of my computer science friends. I've used data structures and algorithms to make some mini games

Yeah I'm experiencing that now with my current school projects. The grades not great but I've learned so much by failing and spending hours banging my head against the wall. The grades not there but I'm learning so much so I'm happy.

So to give context, I'm going to be graduating from University this year with a mech engineering degree. And to give further context, I was a flunk in high school, only took serious in grade 12 because that's when things got serious. I picked science because all my friend took it, then switched...

So I started working in a windows application. But i started having issues with blocking the event loop when using while loops that i never encountered before when using while loops in console application. My theory is that I used commands like getch or cin to exit the loop in the window...

So I've just recently learned what a event loop is and the concept of blocking it. My question is I've written loops before in a console (main()) program and this never happened. Is there something about a GUI program (WinMain()) that makes loops block the event loop? Also I understand that...

So for this question, I understand the math but just wanted to be clear on a few things. So I had this question on my midterm but instead of tensile and compressive stresses, it was tensile and tensile stress. I initially thought that the delta sigma in the integral was the maximum stress so in...

Ok so the rate 20 HP represents Pout correct? Also in a ideal motor both rotational and armature loss are zero, but what about field loss? thanks