Lyapunov constraints and global asymptotic stabilization

Sergio Grillo; Jerrold E. Marsden; Sujit Nair

doi:10.3934/jgm.2011.3.145

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2011, Volume 3, Issue 2: 145-196. Doi: 10.3934/jgm.2011.3.145

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Lyapunov constraints and global asymptotic stabilization

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Centro Atmico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, 8400 S.C. de Bariloche, and CONICET
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Control and Dynamical Systems 107-81, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
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United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT 06118

Received: September 30, 2010

Revised: May 31, 2011

Published: May 2011

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In this paper, we develop a method for stabilizing underactuated mechanical systems by imposing kinematic constraints (more precisely Lyapunov constraints). If these constraints can be implemented by actuators, i.e., if there exists a related constraint force exerted by the actuators, then the existence of a Lyapunov function for the system under consideration is guaranteed. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of constraint forces. These conditions give rise to a system of PDEs whose solution is the required Lyapunov function. To illustrate our results, we solve these PDEs for certain underactuated mechanical systems of interest such as the inertia wheel-pendulum, the inverted pendulum on a cart system and the ball and beam system.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 93D20; Secondary: 53Z05.

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