遥操作系统基于观测器的预测控制

在遥操作系统中需要主、从机械手间进行通信,但通信通道中存在较大的通讯时延,这会降低系统操作性能,甚至会使系统不稳定.为了解决这个问题,首先建立系统的状态空间模型,接着提出用时间前向观测器预测从机械手状态,并结合力、位置和速度反馈消除或减小时延对系统影响.系统反馈参数可方便地通过线性矩阵不等式求解.该方法能使系统渐近稳定而且具有良好的透明性.仿真结果表明该方法是有效的.     

基于RTW的空间机器人遥操作实时仿真系统

搭建了一套实时仿真系统以作为空间机器人遥操作的研究平台.系统以两台PC机分别模拟主从端的运行情况,主端PC连接通用力反馈游戏手柄作为主手输入设备,从端PC挂接嵌入式处理器(PC/104)用作空间机械手的实时仿真;主从端信号传输时延根据TCP/IP协议由软件模拟产生.利用Madab中的RTW/xPC Target工具箱将空间机械手模型编译为实时可执行代码,下载到嵌入式处理器(PC/104)实时执行,保证了手柄输入和空间机械手Simulink模型间的时钟同步.结合给定模型数据,完成了空问机械手实时位置跟踪实验,证明了系统搭建方案的可行性.系统对空间机器人遥操作的研究起到了很好的支撑作用.     

遥操作机器人系统的稳定性研究

遥操作机器人系统由于系统模型的不确定性以及长距离通讯造成的时延,使系统稳定性能变差、透明度下降.本文利用时间前向观测器来推算从机械手的状态,通过对位置、速度和力的反馈参数的设计消除时延对系统的影响.通过仿真验证了所设计的控制器,既可以使系统渐近稳定,又使系统具有良好的透明性.     

力觉临场感遥操作机器人系统的预测无源控制

针对力觉临场感遥操作机器人系统传输通道中存在大的通信时延，造成系统不稳定和操作性能降低，利用前向神经网络建立从机械手和环境的模型。通过神经网络模型预测从机械手受力，并结合无源控制算法进行控制切换，消除或减少通信时延对系统的影响。文中的实验结果表明了该方法的有效性。     

空间遥操作机器人主从双边自适应内模控制

天地大时延严重破坏具有力反馈的空间遥操作机器人系统的稳定性和透明性;针对天地大时延和未知的从手操作环境,基于内模控制和自适应控制思想设计一种自适应内模控制器;推导从手环境参数辨识模型,基于带遗忘因子的递推最小二乘滤波辨识环境模型,并利用辨识信息构建自适应内模控制器;基于单参数SNPIDC算法分别设计主手和从手自适应控制器;大量的仿真结果证明,在设计的主从双边自适应内模控制器作用下,空间遥操作机器人系统稳定性好,对未知环境适应能力强,系统透明性好,阻抗匹配程度高,且操作人员临场感强。     

基于时延预测的遥操作机器人预测显示方法

为了解决大时变时延遥操作系统的预测显示问题,提出了一种基于时延预测的预测显示算法,该算法把时变时延在时间维度上对主从控制信号的拉伸和压缩作用看作是系统扰动,并利用时延在线预测结果对该扰动进行前馈补偿.首先,对基于预测显示的遥操作系统进行动力学建模,并计算出了包含时延扰动的预测显示机器人的期望控制量.然后,以时延组成最为复杂的空间遥操作系统为例,分析了遥操作系统通讯时延的产生机理,并根据其产生机理、模型和统计规律对通讯时延进行在线预测.最后,本文在理论上分析了利用时延预测结果对上述扰动进行补偿的可行性和有效性,并在理论验证遥操作平台上进行了对比实验.实验结果表明,在大时变时延下该算法的速度预测相对误差和接触力预测相对误差在误差峰值处分别比无时延预测的预测显示方法降低了30.9%和56%.     

单自由度力觉临场感比率遥操作实验系统研制

介绍了单自由度主从式力觉临场感比率遥操作实验系统的设计和低成本实现方法。由操作者操纵的主手装有直流力矩电机，与环境作用的小尺度从手选用可细分控制的步进电机驱动。采用一种2通道位置-力控制结构，进行了有时延和无时延的力觉临场感比率遥操作实验。实验结果表明了该系统的有效性。     

基于AR 模型的预测算法在力觉临场感遥控机器人系统中的应用

为解决力觉临场感遥控机器人系统的时延问题 ,本论文提出了将预测器引入该系统的新思路 .该预测器是基于AR模型对从手与环境间的作用力进行预测的 .本论文模拟了具有预测器的单自由度力觉临场感遥控机器人系统 ,并对该预测器的算法进行了仿真研究 .在时延条件下 ,该思路可实现对从机械手较为准确的控制     

无源散射变换的双边移动机器人网络遥操作

网络遥操作系统的随机时延给控制器设计带来巨大挑战,严重时破坏系统的稳定性。首先对遥操作无源理论及其波变量控制方法做了简单综述,然后提出直接无源散射变换方法,它将无源双边控制方法推广到具有随机时延的网络遥操作系统中去,保证网络遥操作系统在任何不对称随机网络时延情况下稳定。最后基于此变换方法设计了一个虚拟主从手双边移动机器人网络遥操作方案,并进行了仿真验证,结果表明结出的设计方法能满足系统性能要求。     

面向多机器人遥操作的分布式预测图形仿真系统

在遥操作机器人系统中,由于存在通信传输时延,可能导致控制系统不稳定,从而降 低遥操作的效率和安全性．目前多采用预测仿真的方法来克服．在多机器人遥操作系统不但 要克服时延的影响,还要能控制机器人协调地完成遥操作任务．我们开发了一个面向多操作 者 多机器人遥操作的分布式预测图形仿真系统,实现了对多机器人遥操作系统的预测仿真 ,多个操作者可以通过人机交互接口遥控各自的机器人,相互协调完成遥操作的任务．初步 的实验表明该系统能够克服时延的影响,并能实现多操作者 多机器人的协调遥操作．这对 空间站机器人科学实验、多航行器对接等方面的研究有理论参考价值．     

Robust Output Feedback Controller Design for Time‐Delayed Teleoperation: Experimental Results

In this paper, a robust output feedback control strategy is proposed for a nonlinear teleoperation system which can deal with stability as well as transparency despite the variable time‐delay and uncertain dynamics. The proposed approach is composed of two steps. First, local Lyapunov based adaptive controllers are applied to both master and slave sides in order to suppress the nonlinearities in the system dynamics. Afterwards, a new observer‐based controller scheme is proposed to achieve stability and performance (transparency) of the teleoperation system. Using the Lyapunov techniques, stability and performance objectives are cast as some linear matrix inequality (LMI) feasibility conditions. To evaluate the performance of the proposed controller, a set of simulations and experiments are performed. Through simulation results, it is demonstrated that the proposed approach significantly outperforms the existing methodologies reported in the literature.     

Generalized control method by state convergence for teleoperation systems with time delay

In this paper a generalized design and control method for teleoperation systems with communication time delay is presented. The design method is based on the state space formulation and it allows to obtain the control parameters for any teleoperation system where the master and the slave manipulators would be represented by nth-order linear differential equations. Through state convergence between the master and the slave, the control system allows the slave to follow the master inspite of the time delay. The method is also able to establish the desired dynamics of this convergence and the dynamics of the slave manipulator. Experimental results are presented showing the validity of the proposed design and control method.     

Control of Teleoperators with Communication Time Delay through State Convergence

This paper describes a new control method of teleoperation systems with communication time delay. This method models the teleoperation system in the state space, considering all the possible interactions that could appear in the operator‐master‐slave‐environment set, and it uses the Taylor expansion to model the time delay. The control system allows that the slave manipulator follows the master in spite of the time delay in the communication channel. The tracking is achieved by state convergence between the master and the slave. The method is also able to establish the desired dynamics of this convergence and the dynamics of the slave manipulator. Furthermore, a simple design procedure is provided to obtain the control system gains. These control gains are calculated solving a set of seven equations. The control method is robust to the uncertainty of the design parameters, so it is not necessary to obtain good estimations of these parameters. Simulations and experiments with a one DOF teleoperation system are presented to verify the control method. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

A Composite State Convergence Scheme for Bilateral Teleoperation Systems

State convergence is a novel control algorithm for bilateral teleoperation of robotic systems. First, it models the teleoperation system on state space and considers all the possible interactions between the master and slave systems. Second, it presents an elegant design procedure which requires a set of equations to be solved in order to compute the control gains of the bilateral loop. These design conditions are obtained by turning the master-slave error into an autonomous system and imposing the desired dynamic behavior of the teleoperation system. Resultantly, the convergence of master and slave states is achieved in a well-defined manner. The present study aims at achieving a similar convergence behavior offered by state convergence controller while reducing the number of variables sent across the communication channel. The proposal suggests transmitting composite master and slave variables instead of full master and slave states while keeping the operator’s force channel intact. We show that, with these composite and force variables; it is indeed possible to achieve the convergence of states in a desired way by strictly following the method of state convergence. The proposal leads to a reduced complexity state convergence algorithm which is termed as composite state convergence controller. In order to validate the proposed scheme in the absence and presence of communication time delays, MATLAB simulations and semi-real time experiments are performed on a single degree-of-freedom teleoperation system.      

基于广义扩张状态观测器的遥操作系统同步控制

针对机械臂遥操作系统中存在的时变时延问题,提出了基于广义扩张状态观测器的控制方法,实现了遥操作系统稳定并且主从机械臂关节角位置同步的控制目标。首先通过反馈线性化,将遥操作系统的主从机械臂动力学模型转化为一个关于位置跟踪误差和时延的状态空间模型。针对该多输入多输出的干扰不匹配模型,设计了广义扩张状态观测器和相应的控制律,从而消除了时变时延以及其它扰动引起的不确定性对系统的影响,并对系统进行稳定性和抗扰性分析。最后,通过仿真验证了所设计的控制方法的有效性。     

Adaptive wavenet controller design for teleoperation systems with variable time delays using singular perturbation method

The main goal of controller design in teleoperation systems is to achieve stability and optimal operation in presence of factors such as time delays, system disturbances and modeling errors. This paper proposes a new method of controller design based on wavenet with singular perturbation method for the bilateral teleoperation of robots through the internet. The wavenet controller could overcome the variable time delay in teleoperation system. This new method introduces a reduced-order structure for control and stability of teleoperation systems. By using singular perturbation method, teleoperation system is decomposed into two fast and slow subsystems. This method is a step towards reduced-order modeling. In this method, we use a feedback linearization method in master subsystem and a wavenet controller for slave subsystem. In wavenet controller, we used a learning method so that the system was Lyapunov stable. As the stability of the model is highly dependent on the learning of the system, we use Lyapunov stability in this method. It has been tried to reduce the tracking error between the master and the slave subsystems. In this structure the position of master-slave are compared together and controlling signal is applied to the slave so that they can track each other in the least possible time. In all schemes the effectiveness of the system is shown through the simulations and they have been compared with each other.     

Force Reflecting Bilateral Control of Master–Slave Systems in Teleoperation

In this paper, a simple structure design with arbitrary motion/force scaling to control teleoperation systems, with model mismatches is presented. The goal of this paper is to achieve transparency in presence of uncertainties. The master–slave systems are approximated by linear dynamic models with perturbed parameters, which is called the model mismatch. Moreover, the time delay in communication channel with uncertainties is considered. The stability analysis will be considered for two cases: (1) stability under time delay uncertainties and (2) stability under model mismatches. For the first case, two local controllers are designed. The first controller is responsible for tracking the master commands, while the second controller is in charge of force tracking as well as guaranteeing stability of the overall closed-loop system. In the second case, an additional term will be added to the control law to provide robustness to the closed-loop system. Moreover, in this case, the local slave controller guarantees the position tracking and the local master controller guarantees stability of the inner closed-loop system. The advantages of the proposed method are two folds: (1) robust stability of the system against model mismatches is guaranteed and (2) structured system uncertainties are well compensated by applying independent controllers to the master and the slave sites. Simulation results show good performance of the proposed method in motion tracking as well force tracking in presence of model mismatches and time delay uncertainties.     

Absolute stability analysis of sampled-data scaled bilateral teleoperation systems

Stability of a bilateral teleoperation system may be jeopardized by controller discretization, which has been shown to involve energy leaks. This paper proposes a novel approach to analyzing the absolute stability of sampled-data bilateral teleoperation systems consisting of discrete-time controllers and continuous-time master, slave, operator, and environment. The proposed stability analysis permits scaling and delay in the master and the slave positions and forces. The absolute stability conditions reported here impose bounds on the gains of the discrete-time controller, the damping terms of the master and the slave, and the sampling time. A design-related application of these results is in proper selection of various control parameters and the sampling rate for stable teleoperation under discrete-time control. To explore the trade-off between the control gains and the sampling time, it is studied that how large sampling times, which require low control gains for maintaining stability, can lead to unacceptable teleoperation transparency and human task performance in a teleoperated switching task. This shows that the effect of sampling time must be taken into account because neglecting it (as in the absolute stability literature) undermines both stability and transparency of teleoperation. The resulting absolute stability condition has been verified via experiments with two Phantom Omni robots.