Robust Model Predictive Control for Two-DOF Flexible-Joint Manipulator System

Predictive Control of Flexible Joint Robotic Manipulator

A new formulation of a trajectory tracking controller for flexible joint robotic manipulator is proposed. The controller is based on the continuous time nonlinear predictive control approach wherein predicted errors in the actual response and the desired response and current control expenditure is minimized point-wise to obtain an optimal, nonlinear feedback control law. It is shown that the we...

Model Predictive Control of a Two - Link Flexible Manipulator

QFT Control of a Two-Link Rigid-Flexible Manipulator

This paper evaluates a new and simple controller design method based on QFT (quantitative feedback theory) for a two-link manipulator whose first link is rigid and the second is flexible. A piezoelectric patch is attached to the surface of the flexible link for vibration suppression of it. This system is modeled as a nonlinear multi-input multi-output (MIMO) control systems whose inputs are two...

Robust Fractional-order Control of Flexible-Joint Electrically Driven Robots

This paper presents a novel robust fractional PIλ controller design for flexible joint electrically driven robots. Because of using voltage control strategy, the proposed approach is free of problems arising from torque control strategy in the design and implementation. In fact, the motor's current includes the effects of nonlinearities and coupling in the robot manipulator. Therefore, cancella...

Nonlinear Robust Tracking Control of an Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator System

This paper develops an improved robust multi-surface sliding mode controller for a complicated five degrees of freedom Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator System with floating base. The proposed method combines the robust controller with some corrective terms to decrease the tracking error in transient and steady state. This approach improves the performance of the nonlinear dynamic control scheme a...