Desing of a Controller for Rod Balancing System

In this paper we have fabricated the two-dimensional Rod Balancing System which expands conventional one-dimensional inverted pendulum control system and designed its controller. The X-axis cart and Y-axis bar of the Rod Balancing System, which is composed of X-Y table, are actuated through timing belt by each of two geared DC motors, and the rod mounted on a X-axis cart can be brought to the desired position and maintained in a vertical position by motor-control. For the control of the Rod Balancing System, we used a fuzzy logic controller that is an approach to systems control when the exact mathematical model of the plant is unknown or the mathematical model is too complex to understand.