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...

Accuracy and energy consumption are key aspects to be considered when using serial manipulators in industrial environment. Affordable operational and maintenance costs are very important issues for automated processes. However, high performance robots also require increasing precision when performing sophisticated tasks. In this paper a method for optimal path planning and task adjustment of co...

This paper addresses the impedance control problem for flexible joint manipulators. An impedance controller structure is proposed, which is based on an exact decoupling of the torque dynamics from the link dynamics. A formal stability analysis of the proposed controller is presented for the general tracking case. Preliminary experimental results are given for a single flexible joint.