Modelling of Bound Estimation Laws and Robust Controllers for Robot Manipulators Using Functions and Integration Techniques

Some robust control methods have been developed in the past in order to increase tracking performance in the presence of parametric uncertainties. In the presence of parametric uncertainty, unmodelled dynamics and other sources of uncertainties, robust control laws are used. Corless-Leitmann [1] approach is a popular approach used for designing robust controllers for robot manipulators. In early application of Corless-Leitmann [1] approach to robot manipulators [2, 3], it is difficult to compute uncertainty bound precisely. Because, uncertainty bound on parameters depends on the inertia parameters, the reference trajectory and manipulator state vector. Spong [4] proposed a new robust controller for robot manipulators using the Lyapunov theory that guaranties stability of uncertain systems. In this approach, Leithmann [5] or Corless-Leithman [1] approach is used for designing the robust controller. One of the advantage of Spong’s approach [4] is that uncertainty on parameter is needed to derive robust controller and uncertainty bound parameters depends only on the inertia parameters of the robots. Yaz [6] proposed a robust control law based on Spong’s study [4] and global exponential stability of uncertain system is guaranteed. However, disturbance and unmodelled dynamics are not considered in algorithm of [4, 6]. Danesh at al [7] develop Spong’s approach [4] in such a manner that control scheme is made robust not only to uncertain inertia parameters but also to robust unmodelled dynamics and disturbances. Koo and Kim [8] introduce adaptive scheme of uncertainty bound on parameters for robust control of robot manipulators. In [8], upper uncertainty bound is not known as would be in robust controller [4] and uncertainty bound is estimated with estimation law in order to control the uncertain system. A new robust control approach is proposed by Liu and Goldenerg [9] for robot manipulators based on a decomposition of model uncertainty. Parameterized uncertainty is distinguished from unparameterized uncertainty and a compensator is designed for parameterized and unparameterized uncertainty. A decomposition-based control design framework for mechanical systems with model uncertainties is proposed by Liu [10]. In order to increases tracking performance of uncertain systems, design of uncertainty bound estimation functions are considered. For this purpose, some uncertainty bound estimation functions are developed [11-15] based on a Lyapunov function, thus, stability of