Final Year Project

Project Title

Development of a cart-mounted inverted pendulum test-bench

Description

The inverted pendulum is a classical control problem that involves indirectly actuating a pendulum in such that the actuation leads to the pendulum attaining an upright inverted position with its center of mass directly above the pivot. The motivation for pursuing this project came from our interest in control theory and computer vision, both of which were bolstered through two-course projects. We believe that having students engage with such an interesting theoretical control problem could help kindle their curiosity in the course content and strengthen their understanding of it. Additionally, the availability of such a platform could also motivate students to pursue research in the rich domain of control theory. It is also important for Habib University to be able to offer its students such research avenues. Because acquiring commercially available solutions for each research tangent would add a significant financial strain on the institution, this project can now be adapted to different research purposes.