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On the Stability of the Soft Pendulum With Affine Curvature: Open-Loop, Collocated Closed-Loop, and Switching Control

On the Stability of the Soft Pendulum With Affine Curvature: Open-Loop, Collocated Closed-Loop, and Switching Control
This letter investigates the stability properties of the soft inverted pendulum with affine curvature - a template model for nonlinear control of underactuated soft robots. We look at how changes in physical parameters affect stability and equilibrium. We give conditions under which zero dynamics corresponding to a collocated choice of the output is (locally or globally) stable or unstable. We leverage these results to design a switching controller that stabilizes a class of nonlinear equilibria of the pendulum, which can drive the system from one equilibrium to another.
- University of Palermo Italy
- German Aerospace Center Germany
- Delft University of Technology Netherlands
- University of Belgrade Serbia
- University of Palermo Argentina
soft robotics, Control systems, Stability criteria, Control and Optimization, Gravity, Robotics, Emerging control applications, Settore ING-INF/04 - Automatica, Potential energy, Torque, Control and Systems Engineering, Stability of nonlinear systems, Robots, Emerging control applications, stability of nonlinear systems, robotics.
soft robotics, Control systems, Stability criteria, Control and Optimization, Gravity, Robotics, Emerging control applications, Settore ING-INF/04 - Automatica, Potential energy, Torque, Control and Systems Engineering, Stability of nonlinear systems, Robots, Emerging control applications, stability of nonlinear systems, robotics.
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- University of Palermo Italy
- German Aerospace Center Germany
- Delft University of Technology Netherlands
- University of Belgrade Serbia
- University of Palermo Argentina
This letter investigates the stability properties of the soft inverted pendulum with affine curvature - a template model for nonlinear control of underactuated soft robots. We look at how changes in physical parameters affect stability and equilibrium. We give conditions under which zero dynamics corresponding to a collocated choice of the output is (locally or globally) stable or unstable. We leverage these results to design a switching controller that stabilizes a class of nonlinear equilibria of the pendulum, which can drive the system from one equilibrium to another.