Monday, February 9, 2015

Built a gimbal to test the controller

About a week ago we recieved our gimbal controller, and started working on getting it up and running. However it's not so easy to tune PID parameters and get an idea of how the rig will be if you cant test it.

Lucky for us we are cleared to use the machine shop at the school and so we decided to go down there and create our very own gimbal assembly for testing.

A few hours at the shop yielded this beauty:


Since we are also going to 3D model the final rig i figured i could brush up my 3D skills by making a model of this test rig as well.

The model was made with Solid Works. Here is the result:





You can download the SolidWorks 3D model from the following link. With measurements and everything. The motors were downloaded from grabcad.com, a great resource.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9x-J0iccTH4TXJXc3VvQXBsdDg/view?usp=sharing











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