Motor Speed Control

The goal for this motor controlled cart moves is to move an unfixed 1ft vertical 80/20 bar back and forth 5 feet without allowing the bar to fall over.

I helped with the code and some of the manufacturing portion of the wheels

First, we decided on the design of the cart, which consisted of the motor, a wheel pulley, motor pulley, a platform and some 3-D printed parts. The picture to the left is a 3-D printed motor mount that would be glued directly on top of the platform.

The time for the simulation was around 8 seconds while the actual time was around 11.5 seconds. The discrepancy can be accounted for in the excess weight which caused the cart to be inconsistently slower throught the experiment.