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This paper proposes a passivity-based port-Hamiltonian (pH) framework for multi-agent displacement-based and rigid formation control and velocity tracking. The control law consists of two parts, where the internal feedback is to track the…
Passivity-based control ensures system stability by leveraging dissipative properties and is widely applied in electrical and mechanical systems. Port-Hamiltonian systems (PHS), in particular, are well-suited for interconnection and damping…
Port-Hamiltonian theory is an established way to describe nonlinear physical systems widely used in various fields such as robotics, energy management, and mechanical engineering. This has led to considerable research interest in the…
This work introduces a port-Hamiltonian (PH) model for constrained mechanical systems, which is directly derived from the Lagrangian equations of motion. The present PH framework incorporates a singularity-free director representation of…
In this work we propose a family of trajectory tracking controllers for marine craft in the port-Hamiltonian (pH) framework using virtual differential passivity based control (v-dPBC). Two pH models of marine craft are considered, one in a…
Port-Hamiltonian systems (PHS) and interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control (IDA-PBC) have achieved broad success in modelling and stabilisation of physical systems. However, the absence of a dedicated scalar potential…
The design of an observer-based state feedback (OBSF) controller with guaranteed passivity properties for port-Hamiltonian systems (PHS) is addressed using linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The observer gain is freely chosen and the LMIs…
This work is devoted to an impedance grasping strategy for a class of standard mechanical systems in the port-Hamiltonian framework. We embed a variable rest-length of the springs of the existing impedance grasping strategy in order to…
Robots are increasingly being deployed not only in workplaces but also in households. Effectively execute of manipulation tasks by robots relies on variable impedance control with contact forces. Furthermore, robots should possess adaptive…
An important performance metric for series-elastic actuators is the range of impedance which they can safely render. Advanced torque control, using techniques such as the disturbance observer, improve torque tracking bandwidth and accuracy,…
Most impedance control schemes in robotics implement a desired passive impedance, allowing for stable interaction between the controlled robot and the environment. However, there is little guidance on the selection of the desired impedance.…
Port-Hamiltonian systems (PHS) theory is a recent but already well-established modelling approach for non-linear physical systems. Some studies have shown lately that PHS frameworks are relevant for modelling and control of swarm and…
We develop a physics-informed learning framework for energy-shaping control of port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems from trajectory data. The proposed approach co-learns a pH system model and an optimal energy-balancing passivity-based controller…
We present a formulation of measurement-based feedback control of a single quantum particle in one spatial dimension. An arbitrary linear combination of the position and momentum of the particle is continuously monitored, and feedback…
In this paper, we prove the exponential stability property of a class of mechanical systems represented in the port-Hamiltonian framework. To this end, we propose a Lyapunov candidate function different from the Hamiltonian of the system.…
Most passivity based trajectory tracking algorithms for mechanical systems can only stabilise reference trajectories that have constant energy. This paper overcomes this limitation by deriving a single variable Hamiltonian model for the…
This article presents a collaborative research effort aimed at developing a novel six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) motion platform for the empirical characterization of hydrodynamic forces crucial for the control and stability of surface and…
In this paper, we present finite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian system (PHS) models of a gas pipeline and a network comprising several pipelines for the purpose of control design and stability analysis. Starting from the partial differential…
This paper deals with the problem of control of partially known nonlinear systems, which have an open-loop stable equilibrium, but we would like to add a PI controller to regulate its behavior around another operating point. Our main…
In this note, we consider port-Hamiltonian structures in numerical optimal control of ordinary differential equations. By introducing a novel class of nonlinear monotone port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems, we show that the primal-dual gradient…