Lego Segway Challenge: an introduction to embedded control

The field of systems, control and robotics is rich and you will not be able to grasp it completely in this project. However, by probing just a little outside this tutorial, you might be able to improve your basic Segway controller quite a lot.

Good references for slightly more advanced material includes

  1. Wikipedia

  2. Our course home pages

  3. K.J Astrom’s lecture notes for a new introductory control course.

For motivation, please read the following nice piece Le Vida Robot from the WIRED magazine, on how ingenious high school students made it to a robotics finals on under water robotics, competing against delegations from several american top universities.