Abstract
A ballbot has free mobility to move in all directions. It is a typical example of a dynamic system with an unstable equilibrium point, and thus it is important to design a reliable control system for it. In this study, a ballbot model is decoupled into a 2D model and analyzed using the Euler-Lagrange dynamic equations. The relationship between the wheels of the 2D model and the omni-wheels of an actual system is presented. The nonlinear dynamic system of the ballbot is linearized using the Taylor series expansion, and an LQR control with integral action is proposed. In this study, an integral controller is added to the LQR control to solve the problem due to the uncertainties in the dynamics model and to improve the stability of the ballbot control system. Experimental results are presented to validate the proposed controller.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 256-262 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- Ballbot
- Decoupled model
- Euler-Lagrange dynamic equation
- LQR control