Statera

Hello and thanks for visiting my project webpage!

 

My name is Jeffrey, and I'm the engineer behind the Statera platform. I designed and built this robot for a senior capstone project for my undergraduate degree in Electromechanical Engineering Technology at Vermont Tech.

 

The Statera platform is intended to be a stable robotic base vehicle that can be added to as a robotic platform. With appropriate sensory equipment, the robot could be adapted to accomplish many tasks from human-robot interaction to autonomous navigation. The Statera platform could also be a great complement to any control systems class to aid in the teaching of basic control theory.

 

Currently the robot is able to balance itself and be driven back and forth using a standard TV remote control. Future software upgrades will expand its capabilities to include more commands from the remote control.

The robot uses a dual-loop control system to control its balancing and forward velocity. The main microprocessor that runs the system is the Arduino MEGA 2560. It will likely be upgraded to an ARM based processor in the near future to allow more functionality and quicker execution of the control algorithms.

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