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1.
Awrejcewicz and
C.
Kudra
The relation between the control signal u and torque Me acting on the first
link
is
modeled by the following equation
Me
(t)
+
TM
dM
e = q U
(t)
,
dt
where q is the amplitude
of
the external torque corresponding to the constant
voltage applied in DC motor and
T M
is
the time-constant
of
the DC motor.
4. Parameter estimation and experimental vs. numerical
results
Although some parameters
of
the system (for example masses, some
geometrical lengths) can be obtained from direct measurements or calculated
from such measurements, it can be difficult, labour-consuming or inaccurate for
some
of
them. Because
of
that we have used only values that can be got easily
and accurately, that is g
= 9.812
rnIs
2
,
II
= 0.17418 m and
12
= 0.22405
m.
Other
model parameters are obtained from identification process, that is from
experimental data
of
input and output signals, where the input signal is the
voltage signal
u controlling the direction
of
the constant voltage applied to the
DC motor
of
the pendulum and the outputs are the angular positions
of
the
pendulum links
lfIi
(i =
1,
2,
3). One can also note that some other special
experiments might be performed in order to identify particular model
parameters, but here we assume that only above mentioned experimental data
from the triple pendulum is available.
The model parameters are estimated by the global minimum searching
of
the error-function
of
the model and real system matching. The matching
of
model and real system is understood as the matching
of
the corresponding
output signals
lfIi
(i
=
1,
2,
3) from model integrated numerically and from the
real pendulum, assuming the same inputs to both the model and real system. The
sum
of
squares
of
deviations between corresponding samples
of
signals from
model and experiment, for few different solutions, serves as a criterion function.
A minimum
is
searched by applying the simplex method. In order to avoid the
local minima, the simplex method is stopped from time to time and a random
searching
is
then applied. After random searching the simplex method is
restarted again.
If
we divide final value
of
criterion-function by the number
of
samples used
in
calculation
of
the error -function,
we
obtain average square
of
deviation between two signals (obtained from the model and the experiment) -
let
us
denote this parameter as
Fer-
Now this parameter can be used for
comparison
of
matching
of
different sets
of
experimental data and corresponding
numerical solutions.