scholarly journals Positioning Control and Operational Evaluation of A One Mass Rotary System using NCTF Controller

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.28) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Rozilawati Mohd Nor ◽  
Sahazati Md Rozali ◽  
Chong Shin Horng

A practical control scheme is proposed for a one mass rotary system. It was written to demonstrate the controller performance towards positioning and tracking control. For this system, the Nominal Characteristic Trajectory Following (NCTF) controller is proposed and improved. The objective of NCTF controller is to make the object motion to follow the NCT and ends at it origin. Generally, the NCTF controller consists of a Nominal Characteristic Trajectory (NCT) obtained from open loop response and Proportional Integral (PI) compensator. The CM-NCTF controller is proposed for evaluating the motion performance and compare with the conventional NCTF controller. For positioning control, both NCTF controllers demonstrate almost identical positioning performance. However, for tracking control, CM-NCTF controller demonstrates better tracking performance than the conventional NCTF controller with the smallest motion error presented. Besides, the robustness of the CM-NCTF controller to the variation load is examined. 

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (9) ◽  
pp. 3333
Author(s):  
Feijie Zheng ◽  
Chi-Hsin Yang ◽  
Gao Hao ◽  
Kun-Chieh Wang ◽  
Hai-Lian Hong

Author(s):  
Songlin Chen ◽  
Jianxun Wang ◽  
Xiaobo Tan

In this paper we apply backstepping technique to develop a novel hybrid target-tracking control scheme for a carangiform robotic fish, based on a dynamic model that combines rigid-body dynamics with Lighthill’s large-amplitude elongated-body theory. This hybrid controller consists of an open-loop turning controller and a closed-loop approaching controller. A hysteretic switching strategy based on the orientation error is designed. Using Lyapunov analysis, we show that the trajectory of the robotic fish will converge to the target point. The effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is demonstrated through both simulations and experiments.


2018 ◽  
Vol 154 ◽  
pp. 01113
Author(s):  
Purtoj ◽  
Mulfiyandi

High accuracy, fast response with no or small overshoot, and robust to object uncertainties are such performance required in a point-to-point positioning system. In order to achieve those performances, a good controller is required. A nominal characteristic trajectory following controller is one type of practical controllers which already has shown it good point-to-point positioning performance. Its structure consists of a nominal characteristic trajectory and a compensator. The design of the controller is based on a simple open loop experiment to construct a nominal characteristic trajectory. Information from nominal characteristic trajectory was then used to design the compensator. This practical approach was implemented in several different controlled objects, but limited to, system with a high stiffness mechanism. In this work, a nominal characteristic trajectory following controller was implemented on a low stiffness mechanism. An experimental two-axes belt driven mechanism was used as a controlled object. The actuator to drive the mechanism was electric motors with integrated encoders. Both axes with different characteristics identified through a simple open loop experiments and nominal characteristic trajectory constructed using speed and position data. A proportional integral compensator is selected in this work and was designed according to information from a nominal characteristic trajectory. In order to evaluate controller performance, point to point operation was conducted through simulation and experiment.


Author(s):  
S. Singh ◽  
A. Sanyal ◽  
R. Smith ◽  
N. Nordkvist ◽  
M. Chyba

An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is expected to operate in an ocean in the presence of poorly known disturbance forces and moments. The uncertainties of the environment makes it difficult to apply open-loop control scheme for the motion planning of the vehicle. The objective of this paper is to develop a robust feedback trajectory tracking control scheme for an AUV that can track a prescribed trajectory amidst such disturbances. We solve a general problem of feedback trajectory tracking of an AUV in SE (3). The feedback control scheme is derived using Lyapunov-type analysis. The results obtained from numerical simulations confirm the asymptotic tracking properties of the feedback control law. We apply the feedback control scheme to different mission scenarios, with the disturbances being initial errors in the state of the AUV.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (13) ◽  
pp. 4374
Author(s):  
Jose Bernardo Martinez ◽  
Hector M. Becerra ◽  
David Gomez-Gutierrez

In this paper, we addressed the problem of controlling the position of a group of unicycle-type robots to follow in formation a time-varying reference avoiding obstacles when needed. We propose a kinematic control scheme that, unlike existing methods, is able to simultaneously solve the both tasks involved in the problem, effectively combining control laws devoted to achieve formation tracking and obstacle avoidance. The main contributions of the paper are twofold: first, the advantages of the proposed approach are not all integrated in existing schemes, ours is fully distributed since the formulation is based on consensus including the leader as part of the formation, scalable for a large number of robots, generic to define a desired formation, and it does not require a global coordinate system or a map of the environment. Second, to the authors’ knowledge, it is the first time that a distributed formation tracking control is combined with obstacle avoidance to solve both tasks simultaneously using a hierarchical scheme, thus guaranteeing continuous robots velocities in spite of activation/deactivation of the obstacle avoidance task, and stability is proven even in the transition of tasks. The effectiveness of the approach is shown through simulations and experiments with real robots.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 2516
Author(s):  
Klemen Deželak ◽  
Peter Bracinik ◽  
Klemen Sredenšek ◽  
Sebastijan Seme

This paper deals with photovoltaic (PV) power plant modeling and its integration into the medium-voltage distribution network. Apart from solar cells, a simulation model includes a boost converter, voltage-oriented controller and LCL filter. The main emphasis is given to the comparison of two optimization methods—particle swarm optimization (PSO) and the Ziegler–Nichols (ZN) tuning method, approaches that are used for the parameters of Proportional-Integral (PI) controllers determination. A PI controller is commonly used because of its performance, but it is limited in its effectiveness if there is a change in the parameters of the system. In our case, the aforementioned change is caused by switching the feeders of the distribution network from an open-loop to a closed-loop arrangement. The simulation results have claimed the superiority of the PSO algorithm, while the classical ZN tuning method is acceptable in a limited area of operation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 6224
Author(s):  
Qisong Zhou ◽  
Jianzhong Tang ◽  
Yong Nie ◽  
Zheng Chen ◽  
Long Qin

The cable-driven hyper-redundant snake-like manipulator (CHSM) inspired by the biomimetic structure of vertebrate muscles and tendons, which consists of numerous joint units connected adjacently driven by elastic materials with hyper-redundant DOF, performs flexible kinematic skills and competitive compound capability under complicated working circumstances. Nevertheless, the drawback of lacking the ability to perceive the environment to perform intelligently in complex scenarios leaves a lot to be improved, which is the original intention to introduce visual tracking feedback acting as an instructor. In this paper, a cable-driven snake-like robotic arm combined with a visual tracking technique is introduced. A visual tracking approach based on dual correlation filter is designed to guide the CHSM in detecting the target and tracing after its trajectory. Specifically, it contains an adaptive optimization for the scale variation of the tracking target via pyramid sampling. For the CHSM, an explicit kinematics model is derived from its specific geometry relationships and followed by a simplification for the inverse kinematics based on some assumption or limitation. A control scheme is brought up to combine the kinematics with visual tracking via the processing tracking errors. The experimental results with a practical prototype validate the availability of the proposed compound control method with the derived kinematics model.


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