Modelling and Control of a Spherical Inverted Pendulum on a Five-Bar Mechanism

Modelling and Control of a Spherical Inverted Pendulum on a Five-Bar Mechanism

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This paper describes the kinematics and dynamics modelling of a mechanical system consisting of a spherical inverted pendulum obermeyer perseus bib pants whose base is mounted on a parallel planar mechanism, better known as a five-bar mechanism.The whole mechanism has four degrees of freedom, but it has only two actuators and so it is an under-actuated system.The nonlinear dynamics model of the complete system is first obtained using a zuca pro artist non-minimal set of generalized coordinates, and then a reduced equivalent model is computed.To validate this approach, the reduced model is linearized and simulations are carried out, showing the stabilization of the system with a simple LQR controller.

Experimental results on an academic prototype are also presented.