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P2. Parameter identification in robotic and vehicle dynamics

 
Figure 2: An example of parameter identification in vehicle dynamics.

The dynamic behavior of robots or vehicles can be described as multibody systems (after an index reduction) by

 

. For a sufficiently accurate simulation of the real system the knowledge of specific data is required as, e.g., for robots the moments of inertia and friction parameters, and for vehicles the damping coefficients.

Within a controlled experiment functions , , of the state variables (and also the input functions of the system) are measured at discrete , ,

where is the (unknown) measurement error. The task is to estimate p in such a way that the experiment that is simulated by a numerical integration of (2) does optimally fit the measurements. As a criterion for optimality the weighted nonlinear least squares objective

with can be used, where is the solution of (2) for the parameters p and the initial values that might be unknown, too.



Oskar von Stryk
Thu May 2 20:47:39 MET DST 1996