Predictive End Point Trajectory Control of Elastic Manipulators

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1996

Publication Title

Journal of Robotic Systems

Volume

13

Issue

9

First page number:

561

Last page number:

569

Abstract

The paper presents an approach to end point trajectory control of elastic manipulators based on the nonlinear predictive control theory. Although this approach is applicable to manipulators of general configuration, only planar flexible multilink manipulators are considered. A predictive control law is derived by minimizing a quadratic function of the trajectory error of the end points of each link, elastic modes, and control torques. This approach avoids the instability of the zero dynamics encountered in the controller design using feedback linearization and variable structure control techniques. Furthermore, the derived predictive controller is robust to uncertainty in the system parameters. Simulation results are presented for a one link flexible manipulator to show that in the closed-loop system accurate end point trajectory control and vibration damping can be accomplished.

Keywords

Automatic control; Control systems; Error correction; Feedback control systems; Linear feedback control systems; Linear systems; Manipulator dynamics; Manipulators (Mechanism); Predictive control; Robust control systems; Torque control; Trajectory; Uncertainty; Vibration control

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