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Title

A Simple Juggling Robot: Theory and Experimentation

Author(s)

M. Buehler

Abstract

We have developed a formalism for describing and analyzing a very simple representative of a class of robotic tasks which involve repeated robot-environment interactions, among then the task of juggling. We review our empirical success to date with a new class of control algorithms for this task domain that we call “mirror algorithms.” These new nonlinear feedback algorithms were motivated strongly by experimental insights after the failure of local controllers based upon a linearized analysis. We offer here a proof that a suitable mirror algorithm is correct with respect to the local version of the specified task — the “vertical one-juggle” — but observe that the resulting ability to place poles of the local linearized system does not achieve noticeably superior transient performance in experiments. We discuss the further analysis and experimentation that should provide a theoretical basis for improving performance.

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Document Type

Journal Article

Subject Area

GRASP, Kodlab

Date of this Version

1990

Publication Source

Experimental Robotics

Volume

1

Start Page

35

Last Page

73

Comments

Preprint version. Published in Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science, Volume 1, 1989, pages 35-73.
Publisher URL: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/BFb0042509

NOTE: At the time of publication, author Daniel Koditschek was affiliated with

Yale University. Currently, he is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical
and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bib Tex

@article{buehler_ER1990, author = {Martin Buehler and Dan E. Koditschek and Peter J. Kindlmann}, title = {A Simple Juggling Robot: Theory and Experimentation}, booktitle = {Experimental Robotics}, year = {1990}, pages = {35--73}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag} }