Title :
On using the Gameboy Advance as a controller for inverted pendulums
Author :
Block, Dimitri ; Gatzke, N. ; Sreenivas, R.S.
Author_Institution :
Coordinated Sci. Lab., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes the usage of a Gameboy Advance (GBA) for non-gaming applications in control systems. The GBA is extended with the XPort and the XPort Robot Controller developed by Charmed Labs. Typical control problems include balancing an inverted pendulum about its unstable vertical equilibrium point. This paper also explores the capabilities of this controller, which can serve as a cheap, widely available microcontroller that can find use in college-level control systems classes.
Keywords :
computer games; control engineering computing; microcontrollers; nonlinear systems; pendulums; robots; GBA; Gameboy Advance; XPort robot controller; college-level control system classes; inverted pendulum balancing; microcontroller; nongaming applications; unstable vertical equilibrium point; DC motors; Field programmable gate arrays; Games; Read only memory; Registers; Thumb; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics, Biomimetics, and Intelligent Computational Systems (ROBIONETICS), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Jogjakarta
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1206-3
DOI :
10.1109/ROBIONETICS.2013.6743577
