Torque-limited simple pendulum: A toolkit for getting familiar with control algorithms in underactuated robotics
Felix Wiebe, Jonathan Babel, Shivesh Kumar, Shubham Vyas, Daniel Harnack, Melya Boukheddimi, Mihaela Popescu, Frank Kirchner
In Journal of Open Source Software, The Open Journal, volume 7, number 74, pages 1-7, Jun/2022.
Zusammenfassung (Abstract)
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There are many, wildly different approaches to robotic control. Underactuated robots are
systems for which it is not possible to dictate arbitrary accelerations to all joints. Hence, a
controller cannot be used to override the system dynamics and force the system on a desired
trajectory as it often is done in classical control techniques. A torque-limited pendulum is
arguably the simplest underactuated robotic system and thus is a suitable system to study,
test, and benchmark different controllers.
This repository describes the hardware (Computer-aided design (CAD) models, Bill Of Materials
(BOM), etc.) required to build a physical pendulum system and provides the software (Unified
Robot Description Format (URDF) models, simulation, and controller) to control it. It provides
a setup for studying established and novel control methods, and targets students and researchers
interested in studying underactuation.
Files:
Torque-limited_simple_pendulum.pdf
Links:
https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03884