• DocumentCode
    2850983
  • Title

    Applications of contraction analysis

  • Author

    Lohmiller, Winfried ; Slotine, Jean-Jacques E.

  • Author_Institution
    Nonlinear Syst. Lab., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    10-12 Dec 1997
  • Firstpage
    1044
  • Abstract
    Recently, there has been considerable interest in analyzing feedback controllers for biological motor control systems as combinations of simpler elements, or motion primitives. Similarly, although its connection to biology is somewhat looser, research on “artificial neural networks” has also studied the use of basis functions (or, more generally, frames) in adaptive nonlinear control. Contraction analysis (Lohmiller and Slotine, 1996, 1997) may provide useful tools to analyze such systems, as this paper sketches. We also discuss related applications to the control of flexible robots
  • Keywords
    control system analysis; convergence; feedback; nonlinear systems; observers; robot dynamics; state-space methods; contraction analysis; convergence; dynamics; flexible robots; mechanical systems; nonlinear systems; observers; state space method; Adaptive control; Control systems; Convergence; Equations; Laboratories; Motor drives; Neural networks; Nonlinear control systems; Nonlinear systems; State-space methods;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Decision and Control, 1997., Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • ISSN
    0191-2216
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4187-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CDC.1997.657584
  • Filename
    657584