NXTway-GS (Self-Balancing Two-Wheeled Robot) Controller Design

NXTway-GS Model-Based Design based on Embedded Coder Robot NXT.

Description

NXTway-GS is a self-balancing two-wheeled robot built with LEGO Mindstorms NXT and a Hitechnic gyro sensor. This demo presents sample models and documents describe the following contents.

How to Build NXTway-GS
Mathematical Dynamics Model of NXTway-GS
Controller Design for Balance and Drive Control
NXTway-GS Model Illustration
Simulation and Experimental Results

You can simulate NXTway-GS model and generate controller program that can be executed on the NXT. You can watch the movies of NXTway-GS simulation and control experiment at the following URL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHPlGTLQHRc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ulBRQKCwd4

This demo uses Embedded Coder Robot NXT Demo as MBD environment. You need to download it from the following URL before trying this demo.

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/13399

<Disclaimer>
LEGO(R) is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this demo. LEGO(R) and Mindstorms(R) are registered trademarks of The LEGO Group.

Acknowledgements

Embedded Coder Robot Nxt Demo, Nxt Scara (Two Link Planar Robot Arm) Controller Design, and Nxt Ballbot (Self Balancing Robot On A Ball) Controller Design inspired this file.

This file inspired Nx Tbike Gs (Self Balancing Bike Robot By Steer Into Fall), Vu Lego Real Time Target, Nxt Scara (Two Link Planar Robot Arm) Controller Design, Nxt Ballbot (Self Balancing Robot On A Ball) Controller Design, and Embedded Coder Robot Nxt Demo.

• Required Products: Control System Toolbox; Fixed-Point Toolbox; Simulink Coder; Embedded Coder; Simulink; Simulink Fixed Point; Simulink 3D Animation
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.5 (R2007b)
• Other requirements: nxtOSEK, Cygwin, GNU ARM

[dirawe]

 

[cheung kwan]

can anyone tell me what modification i have to make to use the Lego small wheels?

thank you

[Deyan Dobromirov]

 

[jasan]

phillip did you ever find out about the observer implementation?

[jasan]

I tried simulating this controller in simulink but i get errors for stating (source function do not exist) such as sfun_bt_tx, sfun_bt_rx, sfun_soundtone, sfun_expfcncallsscheduler. This is weird beacuse with the download of ecrobotNXT in the environment directory these do exist in a C file and as .mexw32. Could the problem be that I'm running this on X64 bit windows 7? Any help will very very much appreciated

[Rajasekaran]

 

[Juan Luna]

Philipp, i have completed the controller becoming both dynamics into one, and close the loop control in the wheel dynamics, but i calculated the remain states from the on-board sensors. the controller can track lineal and angular velocities. but the idea of an observer was made by Takachi in his early nxtWAY in with use a ligth sensor to determinate the states (ecrobot exmples).

[Nguyen Hieu]

 

[Philipp B]

Hello,

has somebody implented an observer based strategy for the non measured states? Great work by the way, but from the view of modern control theory an observer based method would be even better.

[Juan Luna]

> Yorihisa Yamamoto

Hello, I first want to say that a person who designs a system so well, as seen in the archives of NXTway-GS, you should take time to support, from the fact that the documentation leaves some empty, they took me a while to realize that control the direction of the robot is in open loop.

[Juan Luna]

Hello,

I'm trying to enhance (expand) the autonomous mode that controls the NXTway, this by implementing the pure pursuit algorithm, which is executed when these option is chosen.

During the simulation, I found to have some doubts:

1. Why to calculate the current position of the robot you do not use the equation 3.1 on page 7 of document (revision 1.1)?, but instead you use this one:

Z = integral (thetadot * R * cos (phi)) + initial Z;
Y = integral (thetadot * R * sin (phi)) + initial Y

I know that you renamed the coordinates of the robot (pg 56), but despite of the change of coordinates I think the equations are not equivalent.

2. As I could see in the file param_controller.m the maximum linear velocity is 0.3 [m / sec], but you do not put the equivalence with the angular velocity, so: If I put in the gamepad phidot_ref=10, how much it is equivalent in angular velocity?, what I see is that what you do is to add and subtract power to the motors (with a maximum of 25 pwm).

I really appreciate your attention. Thanks in advance, any help you can give me and I am attentive to your answer.

[Sam Mirsky]

Well done. Good documentation. This demo impresses everyone I show it to.

[Yorihisa Yamamoto]

> Anand
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[Anand]

I am not able to unzip this file. please help

[yipeng tang]

 

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[CHENMIN CHENMIN]

 

[Tatsuya Kikuchi]

I watched the Self-Balancing Two-Wheeled Robot at Embedded Systems EXPO in Tokyo. It looked like a clown on a monocycle. I think this robot is joyful study case for students.

[Anas Obeidat]

it's Excellent Simulation to NXT robot and Documentation is perfect.

[Diego Barragán]

Nice