Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
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Modeling of R/C Servo Motor and Application to Underactuated Mechanical Systems
Masato ISHIKAWARyohei KITAYOSHITakashi WADAIchiro MARUTAToshiharu SUGIE
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2010 Volume 46 Issue 4 Pages 237-244

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An R/C servo motor is a compact package of a DC geard-motor associated with a position servo controller. They are widely used in small-sized robotics and mechatronics by virtue of their compactness, easiness-to-use and high/weight ratio. However, it is crucial to clarify their internal model (including the embedded position servo) in order to improve control performance of mechatronic systems using R/C servo motors, such as biped robots or underactuted sysyems. In this paper, we propose a simple and realistic internal model of the R/C servo motors including the embedded servo controller, and estimate their physical parameters using continuous-time system identification method. We also provide a model of reference-to-torque transfer function so that we can estimate the internal torque acting on the load.

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