This electronic circuit represents a switch-mode power amplifier generally used to reverse the polarity/direction of the DC motor. It is essential to transmit electrical power for the applied actuator in the motion control system. Still, it can also be used to 'brake' the motion system, where the motion comes to a sudden stop as the system control input is effectively disconnected from the power source.
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Full-State Control of Rotary Pendulum Using LQR Controller
Horacio Alain Millan-Guerrero (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico), Jose Antonio Nuñez-Lopez (Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico),
Fabian N. Murrieta-Rico (Universidad Politécnica de Baja California, Mexico),
Lars Lindner (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico),
Oleg Sergiyenko (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico), Julio C. Rodríguez-Quiñonez (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico), and
Wendy Flores-Fuentes (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 43
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9795-8.ch007
Abstract
In this chapter, the authors design, simulate, and implement an optimal controller for a rotary pendulum while addressing real-world phenomena. The controller, called linear-quadratic-regulator (LQR), minimizes a cost function based on weights that penalize the system's state error and controller effort. The control objective is to reach the desired system state in an optimal way. The rotary pendulum consists of a pendulum attached to a rotary arm actuated by a motor. It is a great system to design and analyze different types of controllers. This system is underactuated, nonlinear, sensitive to initial conditions, and has 2 DOF. This chapter's main contributions are the mathematical modeling of the system taking into account nonlinear friction, the characterization of the plant using measured data from the physical system using the nonlinear squares and the trust-region reflective algorithms, comparison of linear and nonlinear behaviors, and implementation on real hardware considering discrete phenomena while using hardware-provided tools such as position decoding and PWM generation.