Title
Synthesis of flatness control for a multi-axis robot manipulator: An experimental approach
Abstract
This paper reports the results of research conducted on designing, modelling and controlling an electro-mechanical robot manipulator that serves as a sensing and motion system for hybrid testing. The conceptual design was inspired by the Stewart Platform mechanism for a two-degree-of-freedom (2DoF) moving platform. This design resulted in non-linear kinematics, coupled dynamics and an inertial moving platform that attracted model-based control strategies. A novel control technique based on differential geometric flatness was successfully implemented on this manipulator to simultaneously achieve linearisation, decoupling and asymptotic tracking. Simulation results demonstrated the validity of the proposed approach that established a robust control formulation resulting in perfect trajectory tracking at different excitation conditions. For the experimental implementation, the actuator time-delays was compensated for using forward prediction algorithms based on a fourth-order polynomial extrapolation. This compensation demonstrated a well synchronised control signal at varying frequencies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ROSE.2011.6058539
Robotic and Sensors Environments
Keywords
Field
DocType
control system synthesis,delays,electromechanical actuators,extrapolation,linearisation techniques,manipulator dynamics,manipulator kinematics,nonlinear control systems,polynomial approximation,position control,robust control,synchronisation,tracking,Stewart platform mechanism,actuator time delays,asymptotic tracking,coupled dynamics,decoupling,differential geometric flatness control,electromechanical robot manipulator,forward prediction algorithms,fourth-order polynomial extrapolation,hybrid testing,inertial moving platform,linearisation,model based control,motion system,multiaxis robot manipulator,nonlinear kinematics,robust control formulation,sensing system,synchronised control signal,trajectory tracking,two-degree-of-freedom moving platform,Sensors,coupled dynamics,differentially flat system,nonlinear kinematics,robot manipulator,robust control,time-delay compensation,trajectory tracking
Flatness (systems theory),Parallel manipulator,Control theory,Computer science,Hybrid testing,Motion system,Stewart platform,Robust control,Trajectory,Actuator
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4577-0819-0
1
0.40
References 
Authors
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Meriem Allouache110.40
Mark H. Lowenberg273.63
D. J. Wagg362.62