Nonlinear Ball and Beam Control System Identification

Abstract:

The Ball and Beam system is a common didactical experiment in control laboratories that can be used to illustrate many different closed-loop control techniques. The plant itself is subjected to many nonlinear effects, which the most common comes from the relative motion between the ball and the beam. The modeling process normally uses the lagrangean formulation. However, many other nonlinear effects, such as non-viscous friction, beam flexibility, ball slip, actuator elasticity, collisions at the end of the beam, to name a few, are present. Besides that, the system is naturally unstable. In this work, we analyze a subset of these characteristics, in which the ball rolls with slipping and the friction force between the ball and the beam is non-viscous (Coulomb friction). Also, we consider collisions at the ends of the beam, the actuator consists of a (rubber made) belt attached at the free ends of the beam and connected to a DC motor. The model becomes, with those nonlinearities, a differential inclusion system. The elastic coefficients of the belt are experimentally identified, as well as the collision coefficients. The nonlinear behavior of the system is studied and a control strategy is proposed.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 706)
• Pages: 69-80
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.706.69
• Online since: December 2014
• Authors: Diego Colón, Átila Madureira Bueno, Yuri Smiljanic Andrade, Ivando Severino Diniz, José Manoel Balthazar
• Keywords: Collision, Control System, Coulomb Friction, Identification, Nonlinear Dynamics

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