Ball and Plate Balancing System

Abstract

This report presents the design and implementation of ball and plate system. The system consists of a plate, a touch screen and servo motors. The Touch screen is placed over the plate and the pate is moving by the servo motors.The objective is to balance a rolling ball in a speci c position with the least possible error and smallest settling time achieved for the real system. Linear and non linear mathematical model of the system is derived for simulation purpose. MATLAB is used to evaluate the closed loop system response and to determine the PID parameters. A ardunio is used as the controller in which the PID control algorithm is implemented.