We provide some criteria for stabilizability by the energy-shaping method for the class of all controlled Lagrangian systems of two degrees of freedom and one degree of under-actuation: a necessary and sufficient condition for Lyapunov stabilizability, two sufficient conditions for asymptotic stabilizability, and a necessary and sufficient condition for exponential stabilizability. As a corollary, we show that some of the asymptotically stabilizing controllers that were designed in old literatures with the energy-shaping method are actually exponentially stabilizing controllers. Examples of such systems are the inverted pendulum on a cart, the Furuta pendulum, the ball and beam system, and the Pendubot.
Published in:
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:55
,
Issue:
8
)
Date of Publication: Aug. 2010