Title
On the control of redundant robots with variable stiffness actuation
Abstract
In this paper, the control of a redundant robotic manipulator with variable stiffness actuation is addressed. The problem of controlling simultaneously the end-effector position and stiffness exploiting the robot redundancy for the optimization of the robot configuration is considered, and the relation between the manipulator redundancy and the selection of both the joint and end-effector stiffness is discussed. The controller is configured as a cascade system that allows the decoupling of the actuators dynamics from the arm dynamics and the consequent reduction of the order of the manipulator dynamic model. Only the actuator and joint positions are needed by the controller, introducing in this way a significant simplification with respect to previously proposed state feedback techniques. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is verified by simulations of a 3-DOF planar manipulator.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/IROS.2012.6386120
Intelligent Robots and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
cascade systems,elasticity,end effectors,manipulator dynamics,optimisation,redundant manipulators,state feedback,3-DOF planar manipulator,actuators dynamics,arm dynamics,cascade system,end-effector position,end-effector stiffness,manipulator redundancy,optimization,redundant robot control,redundant robotic manipulator,robot configuration,state feedback techniques,variable stiffness actuation,Compliant Actuation,Feedback Control,Redundant Robotic Manipulators,Variable Stiffness
Parallel manipulator,Control theory,Stiffness,Control theory,Computer science,Decoupling (cosmology),Robot end effector,Control engineering,Redundancy (engineering),Robot,Actuator
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-0858
978-1-4673-1737-5
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gianluca Palli1483.48
Claudio Melchiorri2161.62