Closed-Loop Identification and Tracking Control of a Ballbot

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Auteurs principaux: Fischer, Tobias, Karachalios, Dimitrios S., Zhavzharov, Ievgen, Abbas, Hossam S.
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author Fischer, Tobias
Karachalios, Dimitrios S.
Zhavzharov, Ievgen
Abbas, Hossam S.
author_facet Fischer, Tobias
Karachalios, Dimitrios S.
Zhavzharov, Ievgen
Abbas, Hossam S.
contents Identifying and controlling an unstable, underactuated robot to enable reference tracking is a challenging control problem. In this paper, a ballbot (robot balancing on a ball) is used as an experimental setup to demonstrate and test proposed strategies to tackle this control problem. A double-loop control system, including a state-feedback gain in the outer-loop and a Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller in the inner-loop, is presented to balance the system in its unstable equilibrium. Once stability is reached, the plant's response to a designed excitation signal is measured and interpreted to identify the system's dynamics. Hereby, the parameters of a linearized model of the ballbot are identified with prior knowledge about the structure of the nonlinear dynamics of the system. Based on an identified linear time-invariant (LTI) state-space model, a double-loop control strategy is considered to balance the real system and to allow reference tracking. A linear quadratic regulator (LQR) is designed offline and implemented in the inner-loop to ensure balance. In the outer-loop, the estimated dynamics forecast the system's behavior online using a model-predictive-control (MPC) design to find the optimal control input for reference tracking. The experimental results demonstrate the applicability of the proposed strategies.
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spellingShingle Closed-Loop Identification and Tracking Control of a Ballbot
Fischer, Tobias
Karachalios, Dimitrios S.
Zhavzharov, Ievgen
Abbas, Hossam S.
Optimization and Control
Identifying and controlling an unstable, underactuated robot to enable reference tracking is a challenging control problem. In this paper, a ballbot (robot balancing on a ball) is used as an experimental setup to demonstrate and test proposed strategies to tackle this control problem. A double-loop control system, including a state-feedback gain in the outer-loop and a Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller in the inner-loop, is presented to balance the system in its unstable equilibrium. Once stability is reached, the plant's response to a designed excitation signal is measured and interpreted to identify the system's dynamics. Hereby, the parameters of a linearized model of the ballbot are identified with prior knowledge about the structure of the nonlinear dynamics of the system. Based on an identified linear time-invariant (LTI) state-space model, a double-loop control strategy is considered to balance the real system and to allow reference tracking. A linear quadratic regulator (LQR) is designed offline and implemented in the inner-loop to ensure balance. In the outer-loop, the estimated dynamics forecast the system's behavior online using a model-predictive-control (MPC) design to find the optimal control input for reference tracking. The experimental results demonstrate the applicability of the proposed strategies.
title Closed-Loop Identification and Tracking Control of a Ballbot
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14845