Hw3 2024 CTA
Hw3 2024 CTA
Homework #3
Due: Friday April 5 2024, 11:59pm on Gradescope
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1. Design a control law that globally asymptotically stabilizes x = 0 for the system
ẋ1 = x1 x2
ẋ2 = u,
and justify your answer with an appropriate Lyapunov function. Discuss whether your con-
trol law also achieves exponential stability.
Hint: Check the order of the Lyapunov function and its derivative to determine exponential
stability
u = θ1 y + θ2 r(t)
with an appropriate choice of gains θ1∗ and θ2∗ , drives the tracking error e := y − ym to
zero asymptotically.
(b) Now suppose a∗ and b∗ are unknown parameters, but the sign of b∗ is known. Show
that the adaptive implementation of the controller above achieves tracking when the
gains are updated according to the rule:
ẋ1 = −x1 + x2 − x3
ẋ2 = −x1 x3 − x2 + u
ẋ3 = −x1 + u
y = x3 .
2
4. The dynamics of the translational oscillator with rotating actuator (TORA) depicted below
are described by:
ẋ1 = x2
−x1 + ϵ x42 sin x3 −ϵ cos x3
ẋ2 = + u
1 − ϵ cos x3
2 2 1 − ϵ 2 cos2 x3
ẋ3 = x4
1
ẋ4 = [ϵ cos x3 (x1 − ϵ x42 sin x3 ) + u],
1 − ϵ cos2 x3
2
where x1 and x2 are the displacement and the velocity of the platform, x3 and x4 are the angle
and angular velocity of the rotor carrying the mass m, and u is the control torque applied to
the rotor. The parameter ϵ < 1 depends on the eccentricity e and the masses m and M.
With y = x3 as the output, determine the relative degree and the zero dynamics. Give a
physical interpretation of the zero dynamics.
ẋ1 = u1
ẋ2 = x4 + x3 u1
ẋ3 = −x3 + x4
ẋ4 = u2
a) Let the two outputs be y1 = x1 and y2 = x2 , and show that the system is not input/output
linearizable; that is, there is no well-defined vector relative degree.
b) In this example it is possible to overcome the obstacle to input/output linearization by
setting u1 equal to the output of an integrator, to be implemented as part of a dynamic con-
troller:
u1 = x5
ẋ5 = ũ1 .
Show that the augmented system has a well-defined vector relative degree with respect to the
inputs ũ1 and u2 .