Applications of energy based control methods for the inverted pendulum on a cart

This contribution deals with the application of energy based control methods for the inverted pendulum on a cart model. We will present a swing up controller as well as a nonlinear balancing controller with the focus on the implementation on a laboratory model. Therefore we recapitulate well-known control concepts from the literature which will be adapted such that they work on a concrete experiment with all the undesirable effects like friction and quantisation.