An Adaptive Control Framework for Underactuated Switched Euler–Lagrange Systems

The control of underactuated Euler–Lagrange systems with uncertain and switched parameters is an important problem whose solution has many applications. The problem is challenging as standard adaptive control techniques do not extend to this class of systems due to structural constraints that lead to parameterization difficulties. This note...

Towards structure-independent stabilization for uncertain underactuated Euler–Lagrange systems

Available control methods for underactuated Euler–Lagrange (EL) systems rely on structure-specific constraints that may be appropriate for some systems, but restrictive for others. A generalized (structure-independent) control framework is to a large extent missing, especially in the presence of uncertainty. This paper introduces an adaptive...

Distributed Control of Underactuated and Heterogeneous Mechanical Systems: Using Passivity-Based Control by Interconnection and Damping Assignment as a Tool for Distributed Control Design and Human-Machine Interaction

Passivity-based control is a well-established technique for coordinating groups of fully-actuated systems, but existing methods for underactuated systems are limited to groups of homogeneous systems, coordinate synchronization tasks, and to specific applications. We propose a generic distributed control method that enables heterogeneous groups...

Distributed control of heterogeneous underactuated mechanical systems

We show how passivity-based control by interconnection and damping assignment (IDA-PBC) can be used as a design procedure to derive distributed control laws for undirected connected networks of underactuated and fully-actuated heterogeneous mechanical systems. With or without leaders, agents are able to reach a stationary formation in the...