Hybrid sliding mode control for a set of interconnected nonlinear components
Luisa Giacomini, Behzad Bordbar, David J. Holding · 2002
Reports the use of sliding mode control in the design of a hybrid controller for a distributed system comprising a pair of loosely-coupled inverted pendulums. A sliding mode controller is designed to independently drive each pendulum mechanism to provide stabilization and profiled motion control. Then, to accomplish a reschedulable sequence of tasks, a supervisory system is developed using compositional methods and is modelled and analysed using controlled Petri nets. It is shown that using an appropriate coordination strategy it is possible to achieve a stability envelope for the composite system which is greater than that of the individual components.