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Linear robust trajectory control of flexible joint manipulators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Yueh-Jaw Lin and
Aiping Yu
Yueh-Jaw Lin
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325 (USA)
Aiping Yu
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325 (USA)
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Summary

This paper presents a practical approach for the point-to-point control of elastic-jointed robot manipulators. With the proposed approach only position and velocity feedback are referenced, as opposed to most of the existing control schemes of elastic-jointed manipulators which require additional acceleration and/or jerk feedback. To guarantee the robustness of the controller, it is designed on extreme parameter uncertainties due to highly elastic joints of manipulators and energy motivated Lyapunov functions are used to derive the control law. Four pertinent controller gains are chosen in light of the on-line position and velocity feedback of the links and joint sensors. Through a simulated experimental verification, it is demonstrated that the designed simple position and velocity feedback controller, similar to that used for rigid-jointed robots, can globally stabilize the elastic-jointed robot for a bounded reference position. In addition, the tracking performance of the controller reveals that this simple control algorithm is robust in terms of joint flexibility. And the simplicity of the presented control algorithm, as compared to other model-based techniques for flexiblejoint robots, is particularly advantageous. Even though the simulated experiments are conducted on a single-link flexible joint robot, control law derived in this paper has general meaning for multi-link flexible joint robots.

Keywords

Trajectory controlFlexible jointsLyapunov functionsSingle-link robot

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Robotica , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , July 1996, pp. 375 - 380
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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