Motion Control of a Wheeled Inverted Pendulum Using Equivalent-Input-Disturbance Approach

Abstract

This paper presents a new method for controlling the motion of a wheeled inverted pendulum (WIP) based on the equivalent-input-disturbance (EID) approach. Coordinate transformation first transforms the WIP into a simple nonlinear system divided into linear and nonlinear parts. The nonlinear part is then treated as a state-and-input-dependent disturbance, and the EID approach is used to estimate and compensate it. Simulation results of an NXTway-GS demonstrate the validity of the method.