State feedback response to impulse in presence of link flexibility

A laboratory gantry robot with a final flexible link is excited by an external impulse disturbance. The video shows the effective damping obtained using full state feedback control with an accurately tuned estimator. The reduction in settling time compared to PID joint control is dramatic. This is one of two coordinated videos, the other showing the same experiment under PID control. Reference: B. Post: Robust State Estimation for the Control of Flexible Robotic Manipulators, Dissertation, School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (2013)