MATLAB, LabVIEW and FPGA linear control of an inverted pendulum

Abstract

Linearized model, pole placement and LQR linear controllers are derived for the inverted pendulum bytronic plant. Investigation of the real-time controller implementation using different PC (MATLAB/LabVIEW) and field programmable gate array (FPGA) CompactRIO (cRIO) platforms is done to prove and verify the FPGA capabilities in real-time control. The dynamic behaviour of the inverted pendulum under the same control, realized by the above various real-time platforms is obtained to be identical.