Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-15-1988

Abstract

This paper deals with the class of nonlinear systems described by the equation M(q(t))q(t) = f(t) - N(q(t),q¿(t)) with f(t) a control input. We employ a simple method of control design which has two stages. First, a global linearization is performed to yield a decoupled controllable linear system. Then a controller is designed for this linear system. We provide a rigorous analysis of the effects of uncertain dynamics, which we study using robustness results in the time domain based on a Lyapunov equation and the total stability theorem. Using this approach we are able to give meaningful robustness bounds which justify assumptions that are currently made in the literature in an ad hoc fashion.

Publisher

IEEE

Publication Title

American Control Conference

First Page

2196

Last Page

2198

Language (ISO)

English

Sponsorship

IEEE

Keywords

Control design, Control system analysis, Linear systems, Nonlinear control systems

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