Title
Admittance neuro-control of a lifting device to reduce human effort.
Abstract
In this paper, two admittance-based control schemes for a power-assisted lifting device are presented. This device can be used to hoist a heavy object interactively for reducing the operator's burden. The proposed system integrates an admittance controller with an inner control loop that regulates the velocity of the object. The admittance is the outer loop that establishes the desired relation between the applied force to the object and its velocity. For the adaptation to a variety of loads, an online learning controller is implemented based on a neural network (NN) with backpropagation training. The overfitting of the NN is resolved with weight decay to decrease the oscillations around the equilibrium point. Alternatively, a gain scheduling PID controller is designed for the inner loop, which measures the object weight and tunes the gains with predefined rules. The performance of these two adaptation methods is demonstrated on an experimental setup and the results illustrate that better generalization can be achieved with the NN.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1080/01691864.2013.804801
ADVANCED ROBOTICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
power assist,admittance,neurocontrol,PID
Journal
27
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SP13
0169-1864
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fotios Dimeas1396.45
Panagiotis N. Koustoumpardis2165.97
Nikos A. Aspragathos324337.69