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Excessive Transverse Coordinates for Orbital Stabilization of (Underactuated) Mechanical Systems

2019/10/01 by Sætre, Christian Fredrik, Shiriaev, Anton, Pchelkin, Stepan +1
#FOS: Electrical engineering #FOS: Mathematics #Optimization and Control (math.OC) #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1910.00537

Abstract

Transverse linearization-based approaches have become among the most prominent methods for orbitally stabilizing feedback design in regards to (periodic) motions of underactuated mechanical systems. Yet, in an n-dimensional state-space, this requires knowledge of a set of (n-1) independent transverse coordinates, which can be nontrivial to find and whose definitions might vary for different motions (trajectories). In this paper, we consider instead a generic set of excessive transverse coordinates which are defined in terms of a particular parameterization of the motion and a projection operator recovering the "position" along the orbit. We present a constructive procedure for obtaining the corresponding transverse linearization, as well as state a sufficient condition for the existence of a feedback controller rendering the desired trajectory (locally) asymptotically orbitally stable. The presented approach is applied to stabilizing oscillations of the underactuated cart-pendulum system about its unstable upright position, in which a novel motion planning approach based on virtual constraints is utilized for trajectory generation.

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