Asymptotically stable set point control laws for flexible robots

Abstract
A general family of asymptotically stabilizing control laws is introduced for a class of nonlinear Hamiltonian systems. The inherent passivity property of this class of systems and the Passivity Theorem are used to show the closed loop input/output stability which is then related to the internal state space stability through an observability condition. Applications of these results include fully actuated robots, flexible-joint robots, and robots with link flexibility

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