week of 2/10

This week I spent working on a PID controller that I could implement into a testing rig. The rig balances a ball rolling along a track. The track is on an inverted pendulum, which is then controlled by a servo motor. The servo turns to counteract any rolling of the ball using PID, which stands for Proportional Integral and Derivative. Essentially, it's four systems that do three different things in order to stabilize the ball. with all three working together, they keep the ball balanced in the very center of the rig. Eventually, I will implement this system into my Monorail by using PID to actively balance the train by moving the gyros in response to a disturbance.