Experimental Setup for Automatic Position Control of an Adjustable Cantilever Under External Load

This paper presents an experimental stand designed to demonstrate the influence of the elastic deformation of a metallic cantilever under an external loading force. An automatic position-adjusting system of the cantilever was built and configured to compensate for the elastic deformation computed into the automation management software using the known material resistance theories. The stand can help estimate the position errors due to the mechanical and constructive tolerances of the equipment it is built on.