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Dynamics simulation with frictional contacts is important for a wide range of applications, from cloth simulation to object manipulation. Recent methods using smoothed lagged friction forces have enabled robust and differentiable simulation…

Real applications in structural mechanics, where the dynamic behavior is linear, are rare. Usually, structures are made of components assembled together by means of joints whose behavior maybe highly nonlinear. Depending on the amount of…

This paper investigates real-time control strategies for dynamical systems that involve frictional contact interactions. Hybridness and underactuation are key characteristics of these systems that complicate the design of feedback…

This paper introduces an indirect adaptive fuzzy model predictive control strategy for a nonlinear rotational inverted pendulum with model uncertainties. In the first stage, a nonlinear prediction model is provided based on the fuzzy sets,…

We propose a novel and efficient lifting approach for the optimal control of rigid-body systems with contacts to improve the convergence properties of Newton-type methods. To relax the high nonlinearity, we consider the state, acceleration,…

In this paper we review the simulation method of the non-smooth contact dynamics. This technique was designed to solve the unilateral and frictional contact problem for a large number of rigid bodies and has proved to be especially valuable…

In this paper, a nonlinear rotational inverted pendulum with time-varying parameters is controlled using the indirect adaptive fuzzy controller design. This type of controller is chosen because this particular system performance is highly…

We present a framework for the simulation of rigid and deformable bodies in the presence of contact and friction. Our method is based on a non-smooth Newton iteration that solves the underlying nonlinear complementarity problems (NCPs)…

In this paper we introduce an abstract nonsmooth optimization problem and prove existence and uniqueness of its solution. We present a numerical scheme to approximate this solution. The theory is later applied to a sample static contact…

In this contribution, typical friction driven structures are summarized and presented considering the mechanical structures and operation principles of different types of piezoelectric motors. A two degree-of-freedom dynamic model with one…

Understanding the dynamics of two inertial bodies coupled via a friction interface is essential for a wide range of systems and motion control applications. Coupling terms within the dynamics of an inertial pair connected via a passive…

In this paper, we introduce a novel convex formulation that seamlessly integrates the Material Point Method (MPM) with articulated rigid body dynamics in frictional contact scenarios. We extend the linear corotational hyperelastic model…

An indirect data-driven state observer design approach for the inertia wheel pendulum considering static friction of the actuated inertia disc is presented. The frictional forces occurring in a real laboratory setup are characterized by the…

Continuum soft robots are inherently underactuated and subject to intrinsic input constraints, making dynamic control particularly challenging, especially in hybrid rigid-soft robots. While most existing methods focus on quasi-static…

Complexity and nonlinear behaviours of inverted pendulum system make its control design a very challenging task. In this paper, a hybrid fuzzy adaptive control system using model reference approach is designed for inverted-pendulum system…

This paper presents a novel type of mobile rolling robot designed as a modular platform for non-prehensile manipulation, highlighting the associated control challenges in achieving balancing control of the robotic system. The developed…

Adaptive control is often used for friction compensation in trajectory tracking tasks because it does not require torque sensors. However, it has some drawbacks: first, the most common certainty-equivalence adaptive control design is based…

We consider two cantilevered beams undergoing frictional impacts at the free end. The beams are designed to be of similar geometry so that they have distinct but close natural frequencies. Under harmonic base excitation near the primary…

In this work, we analyze a non-clamped dynamic viscoelastic contact problem involving thermal effect. The friction law is described by a non-monotone relation between the tangential stress and the tangential velocity. This leads to a system…

In multibody simulation, the Gear-Gupta-Leimkuhler method for only persistent contacts enforces constraints on position and velocity level at the same time. It yields a robust numerical discretization of differential algebraic equations…