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Total energy-shaping control for mechanical systems via Control-by-Interconnection

Systems and Control 2023-01-18 v2 Systems and Control

Abstract

Application of IDA-PBC to mechanical systems has received much attention in recent decades, but its application is still limited by the solvability of the so-called matching conditions. In this work, it is shown that total energy-shaping control of under-actuated mechanical systems has a control-by-interconnection interpretation. Using this interpretation, alternate matching conditions are formulated that defines constraints on the added energy, rather then the total closed-loop energy. It is additionally shown that, for systems that are under-actuated degree one with the mass matrix depending on a single coordinate, the kinetic energy matching conditions resolve to ODEs which can be evaluated numerically. Using this approach controllers are proposed for the benchmark cart-pole and acrobot systems.

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@article{arxiv.2301.03746,
  title  = {Total energy-shaping control for mechanical systems via Control-by-Interconnection},
  author = {Joel Ferguson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.03746},
  year   = {2023}
}
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