A finite element based method is presented for evaluation of linearized dynamic equations of flexible mechanisms about a nominal trajectory. The coefficient matrices of the linearized equations of motion are evaluated as explicit analytical expressions involving mixed sets of generalized co-ordinates of the mechanism with rigid links and deformation mode co-ordinates that characterize deformati...

Vibration is an unwanted phenomena and difficult to handle in the control of flexible manipulators and it becomes more difficult with increased in the payload values to the system. In this work two control schemesfuzzy logic control and pole placement control are designed and compared for the control of both vibration and tip deflection which occurs during its operation as a result of both rigi...

Generally, the robot manipulators are classified into serial type open loop chains and parallel type closed loop chains. Since decades, robot manipulators were designed and operated using the open loop serial chains. In general, Robots used in industries are all general purpose manipulators, consisting of multiple rigid links and are connected in series by means of joints such as revolute, pris...

In this paper an analytic formulation of the statics and the instantaneous kinematics of robot manipulators based on the Grassmann-Cayley algebra is presented. The notions of twist, wrench, twist space and wrench space are mathematically represented by the concept of extensors of this algebra and the reciprocity relation between twist and wrench spaces of partially constrained rigid bodies is r...

• E The rope is tied around a cylindrical pole by dual 6 D.O.F direct drive manipulators. • E The manipulators confirm that the rope is grasped by both hands using the force sensor. • E A flexible object model and a CCD camera vision system are used to recognize the shape of the rope.

High performance robot manipulators, in terms of cycle time and accuracy, require well designed control methods, based on accurate dynamic models. Robot manipulators are traditionally described by the flexible joint model or the flexible link model. These models only consider elasticity in the rotational direction. When these models are used for control or simulation, the accuracy can be limite...

The presence of flexibilities in rotational joints can limit the kinematic performances manipulators doing high speed tasks as Pick and Place. problem addressed this work concerns vibration control serial robots with flexible performing Place order to improve productivity. Based on a dynamic model robot joints, model-based law is proposed its associated tuning methodology. then key point our Th...

Output-feedback control for trajectory tracking is an important research topic of various engineering systems. In this paper, a novel online hybrid direct/indirect adaptive Petri fuzzy neural network (PFNN) controller with stare observer for uncertain nonlinear multivariable dynamical systems using generalized projection-update laws is presented. This new approach consists of control objectives...

Flexible manipulators can be characterized by a dynamic model with a large number of vibration modes, and the use of the model in the model-based control schemes requires reduction of model order. Balanced truncation is an effective method for model reduction of asymptotically stable systems by transforming the states to a coordinate system in which the controllability and observability Gramian...

This paper presents a new systematic algorithm to symbolically derive the full nonlinear dynamic equations of motion of multi-link flexible manipulators. Lagrange's-Assumed modes method is the basis of the new algorithm and adapted in a way suitable for symbolic manipulation by digital computers. It is aaplied to model a two-link fleXIble arm via a commercially available symbolic manipulation p...