
Gantry Crane System Modeling
The goal of the Gantry Crane project was to model the system and produce equations that would be able to calculate the position of the crane's load at any time when given an input. The scope was to produce all of the resources for a controls engineer to pick up the project and design an electrical feedback controller to operate the crane. The project was completed by myself and 3 other Junior engineering students, Derek Beck, Bradley Long, and Wyatt McKibbon. I spearheaded the initial mechanical systems modeling and set up the system of differential equations in Matlab. In the attached report, I imported equations in LaTex from Maple to create professionally formatted and easy to read equation more efficiently than typing them directly in Word. I also created all of the plots using Matlab to demonstrate the potential movement of the crane's load when given an example voltage. All of the skills I learned and used during this project, both in communication and technical, will be useful in my pursuit to work in robotics and systems engineering as a career. For communication, the clean design of design plots in Figures 9, 10, and 11 can clearly communicate the results at a glance and the professional style of writing and displaying equations help create an easier starting point for the next engineer.
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