This paper presents the dynamic modelling of a flexible robot manipulator incorporating payload. A planar flexible manipulator incorporating structural damping, hub inertia and payload that moves in the horizontal plane is considered. A dynamic model of the system is developed using a finite element and assumed mode methods (FEM and AMM). In this work will make a comparison between FEM and AMM....

The paper focuses on design and control of a new anthropomorphic robot arm enabling the torque measurement in each joint to ensure safety while performing tasks of physical interaction with human and environment. When the contact of the robot arm with an object occurs, local admittance algorithm provides active compliance of corresponding robot arm joint. Thus, the whole structure of the manipu...

Joint flexibility is a very important factor to consider in the controller design for robot manipulators if high performance is expected. Most of the research works on control of flexible-joint robots in literature have ignored the actuator dynamics to avoid complexity in controller design. The problem of designing nonlinear controller for a class of single-link flexible-joint robot manipulator...

In this paper, the stability and stabilization of a neutral system with time-delay are treated. First, the flexible manipulator is modeled as a neutral time-delay system form. Then, based on the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional theory, a delay dependant condition is proposed to test studied system stability, which is applied to a flexible manipulator model. The test shows that this flexible manip...

This paper presents an investigation into the dynamic modelling and characterisation of a two-link flexible robot manipulator incorporating a payload. A planar two-link flexible manipulator incorporating structural damping, hub inertia and payload that moves in the horizontal plane is considered. A dynamic model of the system is developed using a combined Euler-Lagrange and assumed mode methods...

A parallel manipulator provides an alternative design to serial manipulators, and can be found in many applications such as mining machines (Arai et al., 1991). Through the design of active joints such that actuators are fixed to the manipulator base, the mass of moving components of the parallel manipulator is greatly reduced, and high speed and high acceleration performance may be achieved. P...

This paper deals with the error modelling and analysis of a 3-PPR planar parallel manipulator with joint clearances. The kinematics and the Cartesian workspace of the manipulator are analyzed. An error model is established with considerations of both configuration errors and joint clearances. Using this model, the upper bounds and distributions of the pose errors for this manipulator are establ...

Quick, precise control of a flexible manipulator in a space environment is essential for future Space Station repair and satellite servicing. Numerous control algorithms have proven successful in controlling rigid manipulators with colocated sensors and actuators; however, few have been tested on a flexible manipulator with noncolocated sensors and actuators. In this thesis, a model reference a...