Magnetic Levitation System

For a lab class at MIT (6.302 - Feedback Systems), I designed, built, tested, and compensated a magnetic levitation system. An object (with an attached magnet) is suspended below a solenoid by measuring the magnetic field strength (Hall-Effect Sensor) and feeding the value back to a pulse width modulation chip. The PWM output is used to control an H-Bridge motor control chip which, in this case, controls the solenoid.

Feel free to read my Magnetic Levitation System project writeup if you are interested.

Related Links

My Schematic - Worked very well, but there's still room for improvement. (note: pins 5...8 on the MIC-502 IC are reversed)
Design Project Description - From Feedback Systems class at MIT
"Levitation" - Original article by Guy Marsden
SS490 - Hall-Effect Sensor Datasheet
LMD18201 - H-Bridge Datasheet
MIC502 - Fan Management/PWM Converter Datasheet


 

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