As a part of the Embedded Control Systems course we( Brian Bonafelia, Nicklas Gustafsson, Per Nyman och jag) got a task of programming a self balancing robot in Lego Mindstorms (NXT). The benefit of using Lego from a control theoretical point of view is that it has quite bad mechanics, and there demonstrates the strengths of control theory; to compensate bad mechanics with sophisticated software. Focus in the course if mainly not on Lego building but more on creating the mathematical model and programming control theory algorithms corresponding to said model. Now the result with a short video:

Video with more talk and more details:

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