Event-driven adaptive intermittent control applied to a rotational pendulum

Autor: J Alberto Álvarez-Martín, Henrik Gollee, Peter J Gawthrop
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering. :095965182211473
ISSN: 2041-3041
0959-6518
DOI: 10.1177/09596518221147340
Popis: Intermittent control combines open-loop trajectories with feedback at discrete time instances determined by events. Among other applications, it has recently been used to model quiet standing in humans where the system was assumed to be time-invariant. This article expands this work to the time-variant case by introducing an adaptive intermittent controller that exploits the well-known self-tuning architecture of adaptive control with a Kalman filter to perform online state and parameter estimation. Simulation and experimental results using a rotational inverted pendulum show advantages of the intermittent controllers compared to continuous feedback control since the former can provide persistent excitation due to their internal triggering mechanism, even when no external reference changes or disturbances are applied. Moreover, the results show that the event thresholds of intermittent control can be used to adjust the degree of responsiveness of the adaptation in the system, becoming a tool to balance the trade-off between steady-state performance and flexibility against parametric changes, addressing the stability–plasticity dilemma of adaptation and learning in control.
Databáze: OpenAIRE