A Ball-Balancing Demonstration of Distrubance-Accommodating Control

Abstract

The modeling, analysis and design of a ball-balancing control system is considered. The control system is constructed and an optimal hybrid controller capable of absorbing external disturbance is fabricated. The controller design is based on the theory of disturbance-accommodating control, optimal control and digital delayed-data observer. Experimental results presented are useful for demonstrating the practicalilty aspects of the above theory.