scholarly journals Robust position-based impedance control of lightweight single-link flexible robots interacting with the unknown environment via a fractional-order sliding mode controller

Robotica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (12) ◽  
pp. 1920-1942 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Fayazi ◽  
Naser Pariz ◽  
Ali Karimpour ◽  
Seyed Hassan Hosseinnia

SUMMARYThis paper presents a fractional-order sliding mode control scheme equipped with a disturbance observer for robust impedance control of a single-link flexible robot arm when it comes into contact with an unknown environment. In this research, the impedance control problem is studied for both unconstrained and constrained maneuvers. The proposed control strategy is robust with respect to the changes of the environment parameters (such as stiffness and damping coefficient), the unknown Coulomb friction disturbances, payload, and viscous friction variations. The proposed control scheme is also valid for both unconstrained and constrained motions. Our novel approach automatically switches from the free to the constrained motion mode using a simple algorithm of contact detection. In this regard, an impedance control scheme is proposed with the inner loop position control. This means that in the free motion, the applied force to the environment is zero and the reference trajectory for the inner loop position control is the desired trajectory. However, in the constrained motion the reference trajectory for the inner loop is determined by the desired impedance dynamics. Stability of the closed loop control system is proved by Lyapunov theory. Several numerical simulations are carried out to indicate the capability and the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

Robotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 1642-1664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Fayazi ◽  
Naser Pariz ◽  
Ali Karimpour ◽  
V. Feliu-Batlle ◽  
S. Hassan HosseinNia

SUMMARYThis paper proposes an adaptive robust impedance control for a single-link flexible arm when it encounters an environment at an unknown intermediate point. First, the intermediate collision point is estimated using a collision detection algorithm. The controller, then, switches from free to constrained motion mode. In the unconstrained motion mode, the exerted force to environment is nearly zero. Thus, the reference trajectory is a prescribed desired trajectory in position control. In the constrained motion mode, the reference trajectory is determined by the desired target dynamic impedance. The simulation results demonstrate the efficiency of proposed control scheme.


Robotica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Selçuk Kizir ◽  
Ali Elşavi

SUMMARY Impedance control is one of the interaction and force control methods that has been widely applied in the research of robotics. In this paper, a new position-based fractional-order impedance control scheme is proposed and applied to a 2 DOF serial manipulator. An RR robot manipulator with full arm dynamics and its environment were designed using Matlab/Simulink. The position control of the manipulator was utilized based on computed torque control to cancel out the nonlinearities existing on the dynamic model of the robot. Parameters of classical impedance controller (CIC) and proposed fractional-order impedance controller (FOIC) were optimized in order to minimize impact forces for comparison of the results in three conditions. In CIC condition: three constant parameters of the impedance controller were optimized: in Frac_λμ condition: Only non-integer parameters of the FOIC were re-optimized after the parameters in CIC had been accepted, and in Frac_all condition: all parameters of the FOIC were re-optimized. In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed method, simulations were conducted for all cases and performance indices were computed for the interaction forces. Results showed that impacts were reduced with an improvement of 26.12% from CIC to Frac_ λμ and an improvement of 47.21% from CIC to Frac_all. The proposed scheme improves the impedance behavior and robustness showing better impact absorption performance, which is needed in many challenging robotic tasks and intelligent mechatronic devices.


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (19-20) ◽  
pp. 1683-1696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzaneh Hamzeh Nejad ◽  
Ali Fayazi ◽  
Hossein Ghayoumi Zadeh ◽  
Hassan Fatehi Marj ◽  
S Hassan HosseinNia

This article presents an efficient scheme based on fractional order sliding mode control approach for precision tip position control of a single link flexible robot arm. The proposed control strategy is robust against the system parameters variations such as payload and viscous friction variations in the presence of the sinusoidal disturbance and the unknown Coulomb friction disturbances. The aim of controller design is reduction of the deviation caused by the link flexibility and then the precision tip positioning control of the single-link flexible arm. In this regard, sliding mode control strategy is performed in two stages. In the first stage, the difference between the motor angle (load angle) and the tip angle of the flexible link is reduced by applying the proposed fractional order sliding mode controller and then, in the second step, the precision tracking of the tip position of the link is done by adding another sliding mode control scheme. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is demonstrated via numerical simulation results.


2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 794
Author(s):  
Manh Hung Nguyen ◽  
Hoang Vu Dao ◽  
Kyoung Kwan Ahn

In this paper, a novel adaptive robust control (ARC) scheme is proposed for electro-hydraulic servo systems (EHSSs) with uncertainties and disturbances. All dynamic functions in system dynamics are effectively approximated by multi-layer radial basis function neural network (RBF NN)-based approximators with online adaptive mechanisms. Moreover, neural network-based disturbance observers (NN-DOBs) are established to actively estimate and efficiently compensate for the effects of not only the matched/mismatched but also the imperfections of RBF NN-based approximators on the control system. Based on that, the nonlinear robust control law which integrates RBF NNs and NN-DOBs is synthesized via the sliding mode control (SMC) approach to guarantee the high-accuracy position tracking performance of the overall control system. Furthermore, the problem of the combination between DOBs and RBF NNs is first introduced in this paper to treat both disturbances and uncertainties in the EHSS. The stability of the recommended control mechanism is proven by using Lyapunov theory. Finally, numerical simulations with several distinct frequency levels of reference trajectory are conducted to convincingly demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.


Author(s):  
Nasim Ullah ◽  
Irfan Sami ◽  
Wang Shaoping ◽  
Hamid Mukhtar ◽  
Xingjian Wang ◽  
...  

This article proposes a computationally efficient adaptive robust control scheme for a quad-rotor with cable-suspended payloads. Motion of payload introduces unknown disturbances that affect the performance of the quad-rotor controlled with conventional schemes, thus novel adaptive robust controllers with both integer- and fractional-order dynamics are proposed for the trajectory tracking of quad-rotor with cable-suspended payload. The disturbances acting on quad-rotor due to the payload motion are estimated by utilizing adaptive laws derived from integer- and fractional-order Lyapunov functions. The stability of the proposed control systems is guaranteed using integer- and fractional-order Lyapunov theorems. Overall, three variants of the control schemes, namely adaptive fractional-order sliding mode (AFSMC), adaptive sliding mode (ASMC), and classical Sliding mode controllers (SMC)s) are tested using processor in the loop experiments, and based on the two performance indicators, namely robustness and computational resource utilization, the best control scheme is evaluated. From the results presented, it is verified that ASMC scheme exhibits comparable robustness as of SMC and AFSMC, while it utilizes less sources as compared to AFSMC.


Author(s):  
Jun Zhou ◽  
Jing Chang ◽  
Zongyi Guo

The paper describes the design of a fault-tolerant control scheme for an uncertain model of a hypersonic reentry vehicle subject to actuator faults. In order to improve superior transient performances for state tracking, the proposed method relies on a back-stepping sliding mode controller combined with an adaptive disturbance observer and a reference vector generator. This structure allows for a faster response and reduces the overshoots compared to linear conventional disturbance observers based sliding mode controller. Robust stability and performance guarantees of the overall closed-loop system are obtained using Lyapunov theory. Finally, numerical simulations results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiacai Huang ◽  
Hongsheng Li ◽  
YangQuan Chen ◽  
Qinghong Xu

A new robust fractional-order sliding mode controller (FOSMC) is proposed for the position control of a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM). The sliding mode controller (SMC), which is insensitive to uncertainties and load disturbances, is studied widely in the application of PMSM drive. In the existing SMC method, the sliding surface is usually designed based on the integer-order integration or differentiation of the state variables, while in this proposed robust FOSMC algorithm, the sliding surface is designed based on the fractional-order calculus of the state variables. In fact, the conventional SMC method can be seen as a special case of the proposed FOSMC method. The performance and robustness of the proposed method are analyzed and tested for nonlinear load torque disturbances, and simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is more robust and effective than the conventional SMC method.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Min Lee ◽  
Sung Hwan Park ◽  
Jong Shik Kim

A robust control scheme is proposed for the position control of the electrohydrostatic actuator (EHA) when considering hardware saturation, load disturbance, and lumped system uncertainties and nonlinearities. To reduce overshoot due to a saturation of electric motor and to realize robustness against load disturbance and lumped system uncertainties such as varying parameters and modeling error, this paper proposes an adaptive antiwindup PID sliding mode scheme as a robust position controller for the EHA system. An optimal PID controller and an optimal anti-windup PID controller are also designed to compare control performance. An EHA prototype is developed, carrying out system modeling and parameter identification in designing the position controller. The simply identified linear model serves as the basis for the design of the position controllers, while the robustness of the control systems is compared by experiments. The adaptive anti-windup PID sliding mode controller has been found to have the desired performance and become robust against hardware saturation, load disturbance, and lumped system uncertainties and nonlinearities.


2013 ◽  
Vol 765-767 ◽  
pp. 1920-1923
Author(s):  
Li Jiang ◽  
Yang Zhou ◽  
Bin Wang ◽  
Chao Yu

A novel approach to impedance control based on the object is proposed to control dual-arm systems with senseless force. Considering the motion of the object, the statics and dynamics of the dual-arm systems are modeled. Extending the dynamics of dual-arm system and the impedance of object to the operational space, impedance control with senseless force is presented. Simulations on a dual-arm system are carried out to demonstrate the performance of the proposed control scheme. Comparing with position control, results of numerical simulations show that the proposed scheme realizes suitable compliant behaviors in terms of the object, and minimizes the error of the relative position between the manipulators even without force sensors.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 2424
Author(s):  
Yong Yang ◽  
Yunbing Yan ◽  
Xiaowei Xu

It is difficult to model and determine the parameters of the steer-by-wire (SBW) system accurately, and the perturbation is variable with complex and changeable tire–road conditions. In order to improve the control performance of the vehicle SBW system, an adaptive fast super-twisting sliding mode control (AFST-SMC) scheme with time-delay estimation (TDE) is proposed. The proposed scheme uses TDE to acquire the lumped dynamics in a simple way and establishes a practical model-free structure. Then, a fractional order (FO) sliding mode surface and a fast super-twisting sliding mode control structure were designed on the basic super-twisting sliding mode to ensure fast convergence and high control accuracy. Since the uncertain boundary information of the actual system is unknown, a novel adaptive algorithm is proposed to regulate the control gain based on the control errors. Theoretical analysis concerning system stability is given based on the Lyapunov theory. Finally, the effectiveness of the method is verified through comparative experiments. The results show that the proposed TDE-AFST-FOSMC control scheme has the advantages of model-free, fast response and high accuracy.


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