Self-leveling and Disturbance Platform

Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

Overview

The goal of this project is to create a continuously level platform that can be used potentially for drone docking on water or rough terrain. A disturbance platform is made for the team to properly record and run tests on the reaction speed of the Stabilization Platform. The disturbance platform will establish the pattern of motion for the system. The self-stabilizing system supports an object that weighs up to 5 pounds. The stabilization platform will be able to stay level at 180 degrees when disturbed by the disturbance platform with an ideal error of ± 2 degrees. The system will be able to self-stabilize to a certain inclination up to 60 degrees in all directions, at an angular velocity of π rads/s.

Community Benefit: This project helps contribute to the knowledge and understanding of disturbances and the necessary responses to keep stability of an object. Stability platforms can be implanted in many different applications, such as earthquakes, ocean exploration, and even the medical field. The ocean is a vast unknown, unexplored area. The motion of the waves causes a difficult obstacle to scientists and their expeditions. With the knowledge of stability platforms to counteract these disturbances, the ocean can be explored with one less obstacle to overcome and help implement nation security of the ocean’s borders with unmanned drones.

Team Members

• Jesse Gaddie
• Morgan Huck
• Anthony Manacchio
  
• Ardit Neziri
• Jerry Saint Rome
• Farhan Sarkar

Sponsor

FAU Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry