Energy shaping for coordinating internally actuated vehicles

Fan Wu, Zhiyong Geng
2011 Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters  
This paper considers the stable coordination problem of two vehicles equipping with internal moving mass actuators. The coordinating and stabilizing control are derived by energy shaping. The proposed method is physically motivated and avoids cancelation or domination of nonlinearities.
doi:10.1063/2.1102302 fatcat:ewjbolfk2zfttpyjeglnb4z3bq