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

fYear

2013

fDate

25-27 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

56

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics, Biomimetics, and Intelligent Computational Systems (ROBIONETICS), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jogjakarta

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1206-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBIONETICS.2013.6743577

Filename

6743577