Paper Info
Title
Tmtdyn: A Matlab Package For Modeling And Control Of Hybrid Rigid-Continuum Robots Based On Discretized Lumped Systems And Reduced-Order Models
Abstract
A reliable, accurate, and yet simple dynamic model is important to analyzing, designing, and controlling hybrid rigid-continuum robots. Such models should be fast, as simple as possible, and user-friendly to be widely accepted by the ever-growing robotics research community. In this study, we introduce two new modeling methods for continuum manipulators: a general reduced-order model (ROM) and a discretized model with absolute states and Euler-Bernoulli beam segments (EBA). In addition, a new formulation is presented for a recently introduced discretized model based on Euler-Bernoulli beam segments and relative states (EBR). We implement these models in a Matlab software package, named TMTDyn, to develop a modeling tool for hybrid rigid-continuum systems. The package features a new high-level language (HLL) text-based interface, a CAD-file import module, automatic formation of the system equation of motion (EOM) for different modeling and control tasks, implementing Matlab C-mex functionality for improved performance, and modules for static and linear modal analysis of a hybrid system. The underlying theory and software package are validated for modeling experimental results for (i) dynamics of a continuum appendage, and (ii) general deformation of a fabric sleeve worn by a rigid link pendulum. A comparison shows higher simulation accuracy (8-14% normalized error) and numerical robustness of the ROM model for a system with a small number of states, and computational efficiency of the EBA model with near real-time performances that makes it suitable for large systems. The challenges and necessary modules to further automate the design and analysis of hybrid systems with a large number of states are briefly discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1177/0278364919881685
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH
Keywords
DocType
Volume
TMT Lagrange dynamics, hybrid mechanisms, continuum robots, Cosserat rod, tissue, fabric, software, high-level language
Journal
40
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0278-3649
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
13
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S. M. Hadi Sadati122.40
S. Elnaz Naghibi240.77
Ali Shiva3153.22
Brendan Michael420.71
Ludovic Renson520.37
Matthew Howard610113.10
D. Caleb Rucker747933.97
Kaspar Althoefer8847112.87
Thrishantha Nanayakkara928935.59
Steffen Zschaler1045040.06
Christos Bergeles119713.28
Helmut Hauser121139.00
Ian D. Walker131667204.36