Self Balancing Robot

Our goal with the self balancing robot is to be able to create a fully self-sustaining robot that can balance itself without any external forces and push our design to its extremes by varying the external force we apply. The software algorithms that will implement this will evolve around a PID controller and a Kalman filter.

Angel Patino, 4th-year Electrical Engineering student at the University of California, Santa Barbara

• Angel will be in charge of construction of the hardware of the robot and the software implementation of the motor driver and user interface.

Manny Medrano, 4th-year Electrical Engineering student at the University of California, Santa Barbara

• Manny will be in charge of the software implementation of the stabilization aspect of the robot.