Development of an Experimental Setup for the Altitude Control of a Ball in a Pipe

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In this paper we consider the development of a ball-and-pipe system controlled by an Arduino-based PID controller designed and tuned numerically in MATLAB/Simulink environment. The controller achieves small overshoot and fast settling time. The system is intended to be used as a laboratory experiment in control systems theory courses.

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