Data

Experiments

Deflection

• The following video shows how the deflection data was collected

• The above video was entered into the tracker software to collect the following data.

t	t1	y
2.091666667	0	4.95E-05
2.108333333	0.016666667	6.06E-05
2.125	0.033333333	1.03E-04
2.141666667	0.05	9.61E-05
2.158333333	0.066666667	1.50E-04
2.175	0.083333333	1.60E-04
2.191666667	0.1	1.72E-04
2.208333333	0.116666667	2.50E-04
2.225	0.133333333	2.89E-04

Table 1. Snippet of Deflection data

Complete data can be found here

• The above data was plotted and the max deflection was found.

• The following Data was also collected to calculate the Beam Stiffness

Weight	0.095	kg
Force	0.93195	N
Length	0.048	m
Maximum deflection	0.0055	m
Beam Stiffness	169.445	N/m

Damping

• The following video shows how the damping data was collected

• The above video was entered into the tracker software to collect the following data.

t	t(zero)	x	x(zero)
4.27	0	-0.038121153	-0.032621153
4.286666667	0.01667	-0.0371195	-0.0316195
4.303333333	0.03333	-0.035611738	-0.030111738
4.32	0.05	-0.033110659	-0.027610659
4.336666667	0.06667	-0.02880295	-0.02330295
4.353333333	0.08333	-0.024218688	-0.018718688
4.37	0.1	-0.01922408	-0.01372408
4.386666667	0.11667	-0.013662832	-0.008162832
4.403333333	0.13333	-0.007280394	-0.001780394

Table 2. Snippet of Damping Data

Complete data can be found here

• The above data was plotted as below

Servo Torque

• The following video shows how servo torque was calculated