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Tracking control of flexible robot manipulators with active inertia links*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Guy Jumarie
Guy Jumarie
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Université du Québec à Montréal, P.O. Box 8888, St A, Montréal, QUE H3C 3P8, Canada
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Summary

The flexible structure of a robot multi-links manipulator can be either a side effect or, on the contrary, an essential feature. We present a fairly general model to derive the corresponding dynamic equations in quite a systematic and simple way. To this end, we use the Lagrange formulation with strain energy potential and Raleigh (dissipation) functions. The approach can incorporate torsional deformation and aerodynamic friction, and it applies easily to robots working in the sea. The trajectory control appears to be one in the presence of model imprecision, and a slightly modified version of the classical sliding control technique is utilized to design the tracking control of the manipulator. Then we introduce the time-varying inertia link device (carried out by means of sliding masses) which we suggested in earlier work, and we show how it can be used to improve the tracking control scheme above. This paper contributes new ideas concerning flexible multi-links arms and active inertia links.

Keywords

Manipulator flexibilityInertia linksMultilinks armsdynamic equations
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Article
Information
Robotica , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 73 - 80
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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