Title
Sensorless Force/Position Control of a Single-Acting Actuator Applied to Compliant Object Interaction
Abstract
This paper deals with a sensorless control approach of a lightweight electric actuator. Force and motion control are necessary to perform manipulation tasks with object interaction of different stiffnesses. The controller must ensure stability in a wide range of rigidity, particularly in soft contact cases. The approach proposed here is based on a force/position control scheme. First, a nonlinear position controller is performed through a linear parameter-varying state feedback. A state observer is added to estimate unmeasurable variables coming from an absence of terminal sensors. Subsequently, an output feedback force control is determined using an H∞ framework. The controller is experimentally applied on a single-acting actuator to demonstrate the efficiency of this approach dedicated to compliant object interaction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TIE.2014.2367465
Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions
Keywords
Field
DocType
h∞ control,electric actuators,force control,linear parameter varying systems,motion control,nonlinear control systems,observers,position control,stability,state feedback,h∞ framework,compliant object interaction,lightweight electric actuator,linear parameter-varying state feedback,nonlinear position controller,output feedback force control,sensorless force-position control,single-acting actuator,soft contact cases,state observer,terminal sensors,compliant object,force/position control,lpv control,robust h∞ control,sensorless control,linear parameter-varying (lpv) control,robust ${cal h}_{infty}$ control,actuators,dc motors,force
Rigidity (psychology),State observer,Motion control,Control theory,Nonlinear system,Valve actuator,Control theory,DC motor,Control engineering,Engineering,Actuator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
62
6
0278-0046
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.45
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benoit Huard161.54
Mathieu Grossard2316.68
Sandrine Moreau341.17
Thierry Poinot49516.74