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On the Optimal Control of a Rolling Ball Robot Actuated by Internal Point Masses

Optimization and Control 2020-03-10 v7 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

The controlled motion of a rolling ball actuated by internal point masses that move along arbitrarily-shaped rails fixed within the ball is considered. Application of the variational Pontryagin's minimum principle yields the ball's controlled equations of motion, a solution of which obeys the ball's uncontrolled equations of motion, satisfies prescribed initial and final conditions, and minimizes a prescribed performance index.

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@article{arxiv.1708.03829,
  title  = {On the Optimal Control of a Rolling Ball Robot Actuated by Internal Point Masses},
  author = {Vakhtang Putkaradze and Stuart Rogers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.03829},
  year   = {2020}
}

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30 pages, 16 figures