Resumen:
A mobile pendular robot presents a dynamic similar
to an inverted pendulum being an example of a non-linear and
unstable system with a clear need of control. Despite several
papers have been published dealing with the control issue of this
plant from different points of view, these are limited to a visual
inspection of the controllers response curves, which does not offer
a suitable selection criteria to determine the advantages of one
controller over another. This document presents a comparison of
a fuzzy PD controller with two linear controllers: a PID and
a LQR with Kalman filter applied to a mobile pendular robot,
using numeric selection criteria, such as performance indexes.