Shaping Stable Periodic Motions of Inertia Wheel Pendulum: Theory And Experiment

Leonid B. Freidovich, Pedro La Hera, Uwe Mettin, Anders Robertsson, Anton S. Shiriaev, Rolf Johansson

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Abstract

We consider an underactuated two-link robot called the inertia wheel pendulum. The system consists of a free planar rotational pendulum and a symmetric disk attached to its end, which is directly controlled by a DC-motor. The goal is to create stable oscillations of the pendulum, which is not directly actuated. We exploit a recently proposed feedback-control design strategy based on motion planning via virtual holonomic constraints. This strategy is shown to be useful for design of regulators for achieving orbitally exponentially stable oscillatory motions. The main contribution is a step-by-step procedure on how to achieve oscillations with pre-specified amplitude from a given range and an arbitrary independently chosen period. The theoretical results are verified via experiments with a real hardware setup.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)548-556
JournalAsian Journal of Control
Volume11
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Control Engineering

Free keywords

  • underactuated systems
  • inertia wheel pendulum
  • nonlinear feedback control
  • Orbital stabilization
  • periodic motions

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