This master thesis is devoted to the design, analysis, and experimental validation of an energy-based control strategy for the well-known benchmark cart-pole system in implicit Port-Hamiltonian (PH) representation. The control scheme performs two tasks: swingup and (local) stabilization. The swing-up controller is carried out on the basis of a generalized energy function and consists of bringing the pendulum trajectories from the lower (stable) position to a limit cycle (homoclinic orbit), which passes by the upright (unstable) position, as well as the cart trajectories to the desired point. The (local) stabilizing controller is designed under a novel algebraic Interconnection and Damping Assignment Passivity-Based Control (IDA-PBC) technique and ensures the upright (asymptotic) stabilization of the pendulum as well as the cart at a desired position. To illustrate the effectiveness of th...

This master thesis is devoted to the design, analysis, and experimental validation of an energy-based control strategy for the well-known benchmark cart-pole system in implicit Port-Hamiltonian (PH) representation. The control scheme performs two tasks: swingup and (local) stabilization. The swing-up controller is carried out on the basis of a generalized energy function and consists of bringing the pendulum trajectories from the lower (stable) position to a limit cycle (homoclinic orbit), which passes by the upright (unstable) position, as well as the cart trajectories to the desired point. The (local) stabilizing controller is designed under a novel algebraic Interconnection and Damping Assignment Passivity-Based Control (IDA-PBC) technique and ensures the upright (asymptotic) stabilization of the pendulum as well as the cart at a desired position. To illustrate the effectiveness of th...

La Escuela de Ingeniería Electrónica de UPC enfrenta la limitada disponibilidad de equipos de robótica, con los cuales los estudiantes puedan desarrollar experiencias en clases y laboratorios para afianzar sus conocimientos con valiosas experiencias prácticas. Ante esta situación, se propone desarrollar una plataforma virtual de simulación y control de robots, la cual mejorará la calidad de enseñanza de los estudiantes brindándoles una mejor comprensión de los temas tratados en el curso de Robótica e Inteligencia Artificial, mediante experiencias prácticas con un robot programable de cinco grados de libertad. El presente trabajo reporta el desarrollo de un software visual, en el cual se ha tomado como caso de estudio un robot manipulador AL5D de Lynxmotion. Se adopta la metodología de diseño de plataformas de realidad virtual, utilizando Matlab como entorno de desarrollo pa...