Designing Self Balancing Robot Workshop Schedule

Day 1
8:30 AM to 09:15 AM Registration + Tea
09:15 AM to 09:45 AM Inauguration -- Lighting of lamp; Overview of e-Yantra
09:45 AM to 11:00 AM
    Intro to Self Balancing Robot
  1. 1. Humanoids and SBRs

  2. 2. Motivation for Designing SBRs

  3. 3. Applications and Advantages of SBRs or in general Humanoids.

  4. 4. Types of SBRs

  5. 5. Major Components Required
11:00 AM to 01:00 PM
    eYFI Mega Board and Motor Control
  1. 1. Understanding the eYFI Mega Board and Arduino IDE for programming the board

  2. 2. Controlling the Motors for basic motion

01:00 PM to 02:00 PM Lunch Break
Hands on Session
02:00 PM to 03:30 PM
    MPU 6050 and Filter Techniques Interrupt Handling
  1. 1. Understanding the important variables to measure.

  2. 2. Learning how to measure data

  3. 3. Making raw data to reliable data using filtering techniques

  4. 4. Importance of uniform sampling

  5. 5. Interrupt handling using Interrupt Service Routine
03:30 PM to 03:45 PMTea break
03:45 PM to 05:15 PM
    PID Control Technique
  1. 1. Basic Principle of PID

  2. 2. Understanding effect of each of the 3 components

  3. 3. Balancing the robot based on PID technique
Day 2
Hands on Session
09:30 AM to 10:45 AM
    State Space Control Technique Vs PID
  1. 1.Advantages of PID Control Techniques

  2. 2. Shortcomings of PID

  3. 3. State Space Method and its advantage over PID

  4. 4. When to use PID and when not.
10:45 AM to 11:00 AM Tea Break
11:00 AM to 01:00 PM
    Euler -Lagrange Mechanics and Linearization
  1. 1. Deriving state-space Model for any Physical System

  2. 2. Non-linear to Linear Conversion
01:00 PM to 02:00 PM Lunch Break
02:00 PM to 03:30 PM
    Analog to Digital Conversion LQR Control Technique
  1. 1. Continuous model to Discrete time Conversion

  2. 2. Optimization Using Cost Functions
03:30 PM to 03:45 PM Tea break
03:45 PM to 04:15 PM
    Balancing
  1. 1. Implementation of LQR Control Technique

  2. 2. Balancing the Hardware

Feedback Session
04:15 PM to 05:00 PMQuiz and feedback
05:00 PM to 05.30 PMConcluding session
Please note: Schedule subject to change depending on the material we cover.