Time optimal control for the pendulum-cart system in real-time

Abstract

An experiment in practical implementation of simulated time-optimal control in a laboratory cart-pendulum system is described. The simulation results are compared with two types of measured trajectories of the real system: generated by an implementation of the time-optimal control, and generated by a rule-based algorithm. The technologies of rapid prototyping, real-time simulation and hardware-in-the-loop simulation are used for direct synthesis of control algorithms. The feasibility of construction of time-optimal controller in the real system has been pointed out.