Development of Magnetically Levitated Platform for Camera Slider Applications

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The main objective of this project is to develop a novel magnetic carriage platform for positioning of advanced cameras. Professional photographers often need to take sequential shots from different viewing angles with time intervals from seconds to hours. Examples are documentary movies on wildlife that can provide valuable information to scientists as well as to be shown in popular TV programs like National Geographic. The environment of photography is sometime harsh, extreme weather, and might take several days to complete a process of photography such as time-lapse photography. Moreover, the camera equipment is heavy and each time it should be precisely relocated to capture desired shots. This process can be fully automated by developing a novel magnetic carriage platform for positioning of advanced cameras, which is the goal of this project. A magnetically levitated magnetic carriage platform can provide significant advantages as it is virtually frictionless, low maintenance (eliminating mechanical moving mechanism such as gears and belts), reliable operation with higher accuracy than conventional sliders, and silence operation which is important in some applications such as in wildlife photography.