Hydrofoil stability using DC servo motor
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2017-06
Authors
Durgesh Thiagarajan
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The project based on the application of stability control system of hydrofoil by using the DC servo motor. Most of the time servo motors are used to control movement of robotic arm or control stability for two-wheel robot. So, the DC servo motor was applied to control the stability of hydrofoil boat by controlling aileron of the boat. The IMU sensor is connected to the DC servo motor to control the hydrofoil’s aileron for optimum performance of the stability. Besides, the function of the sensors become very vital to maintain the desired value. The ITG3200 gyroscope and ADXL345 accelerometer is used in this project to maintain the desired value for stability. Moreover, the complementary filter is applied to remove bias and drift error of the accelerometer and gyroscope. The filtered data of the sensor can precisely determine the angle of rotation. Then, the data of the sensor is used to control the DC servo motor which involve PID controller to get good response in term of overshoot, settling time and steady state error. Finally, the boat manufacturing method was explained in detail with suitable materials.