1. Project: Study of Inverted Pendulum


This project was on the study of inverted pendulum which includes its mathematical modeling, the control algorithm, various types of controller and their tuning with respect to the movement of pendulum.
My learning here has been a very enriching experience as it converge all the spheres of engineering from the concept to ideas and improvement. The level of exposure here has been amazing and has helped me through my other internships as well, thereby forming a very firm basis for my future learning as well. Dr. Navin Kumar has been an excellent guide and has encouraged me throughout the project, though our association was of very short duration. Besides, all the facilities and unlimited resources were made available round the clock. I even had an opportunity to interact with PhD scholars, who have been immense help both in terms of knowledge and fun.
During one of such interactions, I got myself involved in another project, ‘Modelling of Healthy and Faulty 3-Phase Induction Motor in MATLAB’. The initial modeling and one of the fault was successfully simulated by the team already working on it. I worked on the fault due to, ‘unequal stator voltages’ and incorporated single phase under voltage unbalance and unequal single phase angle displacement. (Reference : Ching-Yin Lee, Bin-Kwie Chen, Wei-Jen Lee, Yen-Feng Hsu, Effects of various unbalanced voltages on the operation performance of an induction motor under the same voltage unbalance factor condition, Electric Power Systems Research 47, 1998, pp. 153–163). My colleagues in this project were very encouraging, helpful and sincere.