Data-Driven Passivity-Based Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems via Interconnection and Damping Assignment

Wankun Sirichotiyakul, Aykut C. Satici

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Abstract

Since its introduction in the late 1980s, passivity-based control (PBC) has proven to be successful in controlling many robotic systems. The connection between stability and passivity theory is the most attractive feature of controllers designed using this methodology. However, the need to solve nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE) in closed-form has been a major challenge in applying PBC to general robotic systems. Here, we introduce a systematic approach to design controllers for a class of underactuated mechanical systems based on interconnection and damping assignment. Exploiting the universal approximation capability of neural networks, we formulate a data-driven optimisation problem that discovers solutions to the required PDEs automatically. Our approach does not destroy the passivity structure, preserving the inherent stability properties. We demonstrate the efficacy of our framework on two benchmark problems: the inertia wheel pendulum and the ball and beam system.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)1448-1456
Number of pages9
JournalInternational Journal of Control
Volume96
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2023

Keywords

  • machine learning
  • neural network
  • nonlinear control
  • optimisation
  • robotics
  • underactuated

EGS Disciplines

  • Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering
  • Mechanical Engineering

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