dSPACE NEWS 1/2007 12 1/2007 * dSPACE GmbH * Technologiepark * D-33100 Paderborn * Germany * info@dspace.de * www.dspace.de As part of their final year, Mechatronic Engineering students at the University of Adelaide are required to undertake 300-500 hours on a design project involving systems engineering and integration. Many of these projects involve real-time control, and the dSPACE DS1104 R&D Controller Board is the preferred development tool. The aim of the EDGAR project was to design and build a self-balancing scooter that functioned in a similar manner to the Segway Human Transporter (HT), using a control law to stabilize the scooter by feeding back angular position signals from a gyroscopic unit into signals for the drive system. The design is loosely based

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