Adaptive control of redundant robot manipulators with null-space compliance
ISSN: 0144-5154
Article publication date: 5 October 2018
Issue publication date: 6 December 2018
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to propose an adaptive control for a redundant robot manipulator interacting physically with the environment, especially with the existence of humans, on its body.
Design/methodology/approach
The redundant properties of the robot manipulator are used and a reference velocity variable is introduced to unify the operation-space tracking control and the null-space impedance control under one common framework. Neural networks are constructed to deal with unstructured and unmodeled dynamic nonlinearities. Lyapunov function is used during the course of control design and simulation studies are carried out to further illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategies.
Findings
Satisfying tracking performance in the operation-space and compliance behavior in the null-space of the redundant robot manipulator are ensured simultaneously.
Originality/value
The design procedure of redundant robot manipulators control can be greatly simplified, and the framework of multi-priority control can be transformed into a joint-space velocity tracking problem via the introducing of a reference velocity variable.
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Citation
Xu, Q. and Ge, S.S. (2018), "Adaptive control of redundant robot manipulators with null-space compliance", Assembly Automation, Vol. 38 No. 5, pp. 615-624. https://doi.org/10.1108/AA-02-2018-030
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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