Tuesday, May 17, 2011

3/11-14/11

Today in class we experimented with Matlab!  We had a series of mini-challenges, in order to get us accustomed to using the program.

My partner Juliette and I did the exercises together, and this is what we produced:






Our next Matlab challenge involved a DC motor:

Our goal was to build a motor that turned exactly 90 degrees

V_terminal: 5 Volts
K_motor: 0.3 Newton-meter/amp
R: 25 ohms
m (moment of inertia for motor): 0.0001 Kilogram-meter^2
dt = 0.001 (simulation time step)



And victory, we got the time down to 0.25 seconds!



The next class, we added a derivative term and accomplished our goal even faster, 0.1490 seconds! 

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