Project Proposal

Project Name - Auto-Stablising Box

Team Members - Paritosh Raj, Gulshan Kumar

Materials Required:

• 1 Arduino (Uno or Nano)
• 1 MPU6040 Sensor
• 3 Stepper Motors/Brushless Motors
• Wooden Planks

Problem behind the Idea

There are many materials that need to be transported without much disturbances. Some of my previous experiences with delivery guys.

So, we thought of solving this problem, the major cause of this is the pitch and roll motion of the package. We can solve this by designing a box, which can have 3 axes of rotation and can counter the external disturbances.

The design would be very simple, It will be a box inside a box, where, the inner box can rotate with respect to the outer one and will rotate to counterbalance the rotation of outer box. We will be using MPU6040 sensor to measure the rotation of the outer box and use servos to rotate the inner box.

How we got this Idea?

This idea is a mixture of Gimbal (a stabilising handheld holder for a camera) and the aforementioned problem. At starting, we were going for Gimbal, but later we agreed for this device.

The flow of project

We want to implement the spiral development mentioned by Jay Sir, which says to build something, then build upon it again and again.

• The first step would be to use MPU6040 with Arduino and measure the rotations.
• Then we will be developing a platform which can have 2 axes of rotation (pitch and roll), then using servos to rotate it along both axes.
• After that, we will be developing concurrent boxes were the inner box can have full rotations without striking/hitting the outer box.
• Parallelly, we will be implementing the MPU6040 with the platform developed in step 2 to develop a stable platform.
• Then we will go for implementing the same in the box developed in step 3.
• After that, we will go for the 3rd axis of rotation to counter the yaw.