Rolling Balance Board Robust Stabilization: A MID-based Design

This paper considers the stabilization of a rolling balance board by means of the multiplicity-induced-dominancy property. A two degree-of-freedom mechanical model of a human balancing on a rolling balance board is analyzed in the sagittal plane. The human body is modeled by an inverted pendulum which connects to the balance board through the ankle joint. The system is stabilized by the ankle torque managed by the central nervous system (CNS). The action of the CNS is modeled by a delayed full state feedback: a pointwise delay stands for all latencies in the neuromechanical system (reaction time, neuromechanical lag, etc.). The aim of the paper is to achieve a good occurrence in terms of the decay rate, it shows the links with dominancy and with the exponential stability property of the solution.