Hybrid Control Scheme of Coordinated Motion and Active Vibration Suppression for Free-Floating Space Flexible Manipulator With Parameter Uncertainty
The dynamic control and vibration suppression problems of free-floating space flexible manipulator are studied. The Variable Structure Control (VSC) law alone, which is designed to track the desired trajectories of base’s attitude and joint angles, does not guarantee the stability of the flexible mode dynamics of the flexible link. In order to actively suppress the flexible vibration, a hybrid trajectory for the VSC is generated using the virtual control force concept. Based on the hybrid trajectory, the hybrid control scheme is proposed to eliminate the flexible vibration while the robustness of VSC developed for coordinated motion is maintained. In particular, it doesn’t require measuring the position, velocity nor acceleration of the base in the controller design. Simulation result confirms that the proposed hybrid control scheme can dominates the trajectory tracking of coordinated motion and actively suppress the vibration in the presence of parameter uncertainty.