lie-group-controllers

Some theory behind the library

The library aims to contain some controllers designed in lie groups. The library depends only on Eigen and manif.

All the controllers defined in lie-group-controllers have in common that they inherit from a templated base class (CRTP). It allows one to write generic code abstracting the controller details. This follows the structure of manif and Eigen.

The library implements two controllers:

1. Proportional Controller (P controller)
2. Proportional Derivative Controller (PD controller)

The controllers have the following form

Proportional Controller	Proportional Derivative Controller

where X and Xᵈ are elements of a Lie group. ∘ is the group operator. ψ represents an element in the Lie algebra of the Lie group whose coordinates are expressed in ℝⁿ.

The controllers support all the groups defined in manif. Namely:

• ℝ(n): Euclidean space with addition.
• SO(2): rotations in the plane.
• SE(2): rigid motion (rotation and translation) in the plane.
• SO(3): rotations in 3D space.
• SE(3): rigid motion (rotation and translation) in 3D space.

Please you can find further information in

Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control,
Kevin M. Lynch and Frank C. Park,
Cambridge University Press, 2017,
ISBN 9781107156302

Basic Usage

The library implements proportional and proportional derivative controllers on Lie groups. What follows are two simple snippets that you can follow to build and use such controllers. For sake of simplicity, only controllers in SO(3) are shown. The very same applies to the other Lie groups

Proportional controller SO(3)

// set random initial state and zero feedforward
manif::SO3d desiredState, state;
desiredState.setRandom();
state.setRandom();
Eigen::Vector3d feedForward = Eigen::Vector3d::Zero();

// create the controller.
ProportionalControllerSO3d controller;

// set the proportional gain
const double kp = 10;
controller.setGains(kp);

// set the desired state, the feed-forward, and the state
controller.setDesiredState(desiredState);
controller.setFeedForward(feedForward);
controller.setState(state);

// compute the control law
controller.computeControlLaw();
const auto& controlOutput = controller.getControl();

Proportional Derivative controller SO(3)

// set random initial state and zero feedforward
manif::SO3d desiredState, state;
desiredState.setRandom();
state.setRandom();
manif::SO3d::Tangent stateDerivative = Eigen::Vector3d::Zero();
manif::SO3d::Tangent desiredStateDerivative = Eigen::Vector3d::Zero();
Eigen::Vector3d feedForward = Eigen::Vector3d::Zero();

// create the controller.
ProportionalDerivativeControllerSO3d controller;

// set the proportional and the derivative gains
const double kp = 10;
const double kd = 2 * std::sqrt(kp);
controller.setGains(kp, kd);

// set the desired state, its derivative, the feed-forward, and the state
controller.setDesiredState(desiredState, desiredStateDerivative);
controller.setFeedForward(feedForward);
controller.setState(state, stateDerivative);

// compute the control law
controller.computeControlLaw();
const auto& controlOutput = controller.getControl();

Dependeces

• manif
• Eigen3
• cmake

Build the library

git clone https://github.com/GiulioRomualdi/lie-group-controllers.git
cd lie-group-controllers
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../
cmake --build .
[sudo] cmake --build . --target install

If you want to enable tests set the BUILD_TESTING option to ON.

Use lie-group-controllers in your project

lie-group-controllers provides native CMake support which allows the library to be easily used in CMake projects. Please add in your CMakeLists.txt

project(foo)
find_package(LieGroupControllers REQUIRED)
add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} src/foo.cpp)
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} LieGroupControllers::LieGroupControllers)

Bug reports and support

All types of issues are welcome.

Note

The original version of the library can be found here.