Pan and Tilt

Project Description

There are some high-tech restaurants using robots for delivering food and providing service to customers. And those robots are essentially movable wheeled tables. Although they are good enough to satisfy the purpose of delivering, it would be even better if they could hand the food to customers themselves and service them. In that case, stabilization in their hands would be necessary.

Our Solution

Use 328p MCU to build a self-stabilizing platform prototype. And possibly develop and integrate that prototype into service robots in the future. The cost of our pan and tilt is much cheaper than what the market offers. This project explored PID (proportional-integral-derivative), a key technique of controlling a system precisely.

Beyond Prototype

This project is meaningful because it fulfills our imagination that in the future, more and more robots will be interacting with humans physically. And we could use this project as a starting point, figuring out what it takes for a robot to do what humans are capable of doing and how we as engineers can design our system for mimicking human actions.

Built With

• 328p
• atmega
• atmel