Modeling,analysis and compensation of disturbances during task execution of a wheeled inverted pendulum type assistant robot using a unified controller

This paper presents the modeling and analysis of disturbances caused by model changes, unknown dynamics, and external forces during task execution of a wheeled Inverted PENdulum Type Assistant Robot. Compensating these disturbances and their effects results in the ability of the system to perform different tasks without changes in the control structure. This results in a unified controller for multiple tasks making the control system simple without sacrificing robustness. Estimation of these disturbances is performed using the extended state observer (ESO), which is a practical observer since it requires very little system information. To ensure proper application of the ESO, the analysis of the equilibrium states under disturbances was performed. The disturbance modeling and the effectiveness of the control are verified by results from disturbance and task tests. Finally, the bounded input bounded output behavior of the system with consideration to the disturbances is presented.