Impedance Control of a Two Degree-of-Freedom Flexible Link Manipulator Using Singular Perturbation and Sliding Mode Control Theory

Volume 1 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Karimzadeh ◽  
G. R. Vossoughi

In this article, impedance control of a two link flexible link manipulators is addressed. The concept of impedance control of flexible link robots is rather new and is being addressed for the first time. Impedance Control provides a universal approach to the control of flexible robots — in both constrained and unconstrained maneuvers. The initial part of the paper concerns the use Hamilton’s principle to derive the mathematical equations governing the dynamics of joint angles, vibration of the flexible links and the constraining forces. The approximate elastic deformations are then derived by means of the Assumed-Mode-Method (AMM). Using the singular perturbation method, the dynamic of the manipulator is decomposed to the fast and the slow subsystems. The slow dynamic corresponds to the rigid manipulator and fast dynamic is due to vibrations of flexible links. The sliding mode control (SMC) theory has been used as the means to achieve the 2nd order target impedance for the slow dynamics. A controller based on state feedback is also designed to stabilize the fast dynamics. The composite controller is constructed by using the slow and fast controllers. Simulation results for a 2 DOF robot in which only the 2nd link is flexible confirm that the controller performs remarkably well under various simulation conditions.

Robotica ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. R. Vossoughi ◽  
A. Karimzadeh

In this article, impedance control of a two link flexible link manipulators is addressed. The concept of impedance control of flexible link robots is rather new and is being addressed for the first time by the authors. Impedance Control provides a universal approach to the control of flexible robots, in both constrained and unconstrained maneuvers. The initial part of the paper concerns the use of Hamilton's principle to derive the mathematical equations governing the dynamics of joint angles, vibration of the flexible links and the constraining forces. The approximate elastic deformations are then derived by means of the Assumed-Mode-Method (AMM). Using the singular perturbation method, the dynamic of the manipulator is decomposed into fast and slow subsystems. The slow dynamic corresponds to the rigid manipulator and the fast dynamic is due to vibrations of flexible links. The sliding mode control (SMC) theory has been used as the means to achieve the 2nd order target impedance for the slow dynamics. A controller based on state feedback is also designed to stabilize the fast dynamics. The composite controller is constructed by using the slow and fast controllers. Simulation results for a 2-DOF robot in which only the 2nd link is flexible confirm that the controller performs remarkably well under various simulation conditions.


Author(s):  
Majied Mokhtari ◽  
Mostafa Taghizadeh ◽  
Pegah Ghaf Ghanbari

In this paper, an active fault-tolerant control scheme is proposed for a lower limb exoskeleton, based on hybrid backstepping nonsingular fast terminal integral type sliding mode control and impedance control. To increase the robustness of the sliding mode controller and to eliminate the chattering, a nonsingular fast terminal integral type sliding surface is used, which ensures finite time convergence and high tracking accuracy. The backstepping term of this controller guarantees global stability based on Lyapunov stability criterion, and the impedance control reduces the interaction forces between the user and the robot. This controller employs a third order super twisting sliding mode observer for detecting, isolating ad estimating sensor and actuator faults. Motion stability based on zero moment point criterion is achieved by trajectory planning of waist joint. Furthermore, the highest level of stability, minimum error in tracking the desired joint trajectories, minimum interaction force between the user and the robot, and maximum system capability to handle the effect of faults are realized by optimizing the parameters of the desired trajectories, the controller and the observer, using harmony search algorithm. Simulation results for the proposed controller are compared with the results obtained from adaptive nonsingular fast terminal integral type sliding mode control, as well as conventional sliding mode control, which confirm the outperformance of the proposed control scheme.


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