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...

Abstract: Using robot manipulators for high accuracy applications require precise value of the kinematics parameters. Since measurement of kinematics parameters are usually associated with errors and accurate measurement of them is an expensive task, automatic calibration of robot link parameters makes the task of kinematics parameters determination much easier. In this paper a simple and easy ...

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...

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...

For uncalibrated visual servoing for image-based dynamic control of robot manipulators, acquiring an image Jacobian matrix (interaction matrix) or its inverse matrix is necessary and difficult. In this paper, a new controller of uncalibrated visual sevro using pseudo inverse of image Jacobian matrix is presented, which based on dynamics of robot manipulators. In this method, camera’s intrinsic ...

This paper presents a terminal sliding control law for controlling robot manipulators with parameter uncertainty, applied to a 4-DOF robot. By exploring some properties of robot manipulators, the proposed approach simplifies significantly the standard scheme of a terminal sliding control. Major simulations results using numerical values of an industrial SCARA robot prove the effectiveness of th...

This paper proposes a process to design an iterative learning control (ILC) to be applied to flexible joint robot manipulators which repeats identical tasks under the same operation conditions. The proposed ILC updates the desired trajectory not the feedback control signals in order to avoid potentially destabilizing embedded controllers of the robot manipulators. To guarantee the convergence o...