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Jose Guadalupe Romero

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arXiv2021

Bounded Inputs Total Energy Shaping for Mechanical Systems

Designing control systems with bounded input is a practical consideration since realizable physical systems are limited by the saturation of actuators. The actuators' saturation degrades the performance of the control system, and in extreme cases, the stability of the closed-loop system may be lost. However, actuator saturation is typically neglected in the design of control systems, with compensation being made in the form of over-designing the actuator or by post-analyzing the resulting system to ensure acceptable performance. The bounded input control of fully actuated systems has been investigated in multiple studies, but it is not generalized for under actuated mechanical systems. This article proposes a systematic framework for finding the upper bound of control effort in underactuated systems, based on interconnection and the damping assignment passivity based control (IDA-PBC) approach. The proposed method also offers design variables for the control law to be tuned, considering the actuator's limit. The major difficulty in finding the control input upper bounds is the velocity dependent kinetic energy related terms. Thus, the upper bound of velocity is computed using a suitable Lyapunov candidate as a function of closed-loop system parameters. The validity and application of the proposed method are investigated in detail through two benchmark systems.

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arXiv2020

Adaptive motion control of parallel robots with kinematic and dynamic uncertainties

One of the most challenging issues in adaptive control of robot manipulators with kinematic uncertainties is requirement of the inverse of Jacobian matrix in regressor form. This requirement is inevitable in the case of the control of parallel robots, whose dynamic equations are written directly in the task space. In this paper, an adaptive controller is designed for parallel robots based on representation of Jacobian matrix in regressor form, such that asymptotic trajectory tracking is ensured. The main idea is separation of determinant and adjugate of Jacobian matrix and then organize new regressor forms. Simulation and experimental results on a 2--DOF R\underline{P}R and 3--DOF redundant cable driven robot, verify promising performance of the proposed methods.

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arXiv2019

Orbital Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems via the Immersion and Invariance Technique

Immersion and Invariance is a technique for the design of stabilizing and adaptive controllers and state observers for nonlinear systems. In all these applications the problem considered is the stabilization of equilibrium points. Motivated by some modern applications we show that the technique can also be used to solve the problem of orbital stabilization, where the final objective is to generate periodic solutions that are attractive. The feasibility of our result is illustrated with some classical mechanical engineering and electronics examples.

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arXiv2019

Parameter Estimation of Nonlinearly Parameterized Regressions without Overparameterization nor Persistent Excitation: Application to System Identification and Adaptive Control

In this paper we propose a solution to the problem of parameter estimation of nonlinearly parameterized regressions--continuous or discrete time--and apply it for system identification and adaptive control. We restrict our attention to parameterizations that can be factorized as the product of two functions, a measurable one and a nonlinear function of the parameters to be estimated. Although in this case it is possible to define an extended vector of unknown parameters to get a linear regression, it is well-known that overparameterization suffers from some severe shortcomings. Another feature of the proposed estimator is that parameter convergence is ensured without a persistency of excitation assumption. It is assumed that, after a coordinate change, some of the elements of the transformed function satisfy a monotonicity condition. The proposed estimators are applied to design identifiers and adaptive controllers for nonlinearly parameterized systems. In continuous-time we consider a general class of nonlinear systems and those described by Euler-Lagrange models, while in discrete-time we apply the method to the challenging problems of direct and indirect adaptive pole-placement. The effectiveness of our approach is illustrated with several classical examples, which are traditionally tackled using overparameterization and assuming persistency of excitation.

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arXiv2016

Global Stabilisation of Underactuated Mechanical Systems via PID Passivity-Based Control

In this note we identify a class of underactuated mechanical systems whose desired constant equilibrium position can be globally stabilised with the ubiquitous PID controller. The class is characterised via some easily verifiable conditions on the systems inertia matrix and potential energy function, which are satisfied by many benchmark examples. The design proceeds in two main steps, first, the definition of two new passive outputs whose weighted sum defines the signal around which the PID is added. Second, the observation that it is possible to construct a Lyapunov function for the desired equilibrium via a suitable choice of the aforementioned weights and the PID gains and initial conditions. The results reported here follow the same research line as [7] and [20]---bridging the gap between the Hamiltonian and the Lagrangian formulations used, correspondingly, in these papers. Two additional improvements to our previous works are the removal of a non-robust cancellation of a potential energy term and the establishment of equilibrium attractivity under weaker assumptions.

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arXiv2015

Simultaneous Interconnection and Damping Assignment Passivity-based Control of Mechanical Systems Using Generalized Forces

To extend the realm of application of the well known controller design technique of interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control (IDA-PBC) of mechanical systems two modifications to the standard method are presented in this article. First, similarly to [1], it is proposed to avoid the splitting of the control action into energy-shaping and damping injection terms, but instead to carry them out simultaneously. Second, motivated by [2], we propose to consider the inclusion of generalised forces, going beyond the gyroscopic ones used in standard IDA-PBC. It is shown that several new controllers for mechanical systems designed invoking other (less systematic procedures) that do not satisfy the conditions of standard IDA-PBC, actually belong to this new class of SIDA-PBC.

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arXiv2015

Two Globally Convergent Adaptive Speed Observers for Mechanical Systems

A globally exponentially stable speed observer for mechanical systems was recently reported in the literature, under the assumptions of known (or no) Coulomb friction and no disturbances. In this note we propose and adaptive version of this observer, which is robust vis--a--vis constant disturbances. Moreover, we propose a new globally convergent speed observer that, besides rejecting the disturbances, estimates some unknown friction coefficients for a class of mechanical systems that contains several practical examples.

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