Underactuated fingers controlled by robust and adaptive trajectory following methods

Choosing an appropriate control scheme to alleviate nonlinearities and uncertainties is not a trivial task, especially when models are not easily available and practical evaluation provides the only means for actual performance assessment. Various factors can contribute to these nonlinearities and uncertainties, such as friction and stiction. Thus, this article investigates four different control schemes, namely PID, adaptive, conventional sliding mode control (SMC) and integral sliding mode control (ISMC) which are implemented in the Bristol Elumotion Robot Hand (BERUL) to analyse and overcome the aforementioned problems. The hand has five fingers with 16 joints and all fingers are underactuated. The implementation of the proposed control schemes are challenging since the BERUL fingers have significant friction, stiction and unknown parameters. The fingers are light in weight and fragile. Comparative performance characteristics have shown that the ISMC is the most suitable candidate to provide good experimental trajectory following and positioning control for underactuated BERUL fingers.     

基于虚拟弹簧的欠驱动手指的动力学建模和控制

采用虚拟弹簧对2关节欠驱动手指进行了动力学建模。并使用该方法建立实际的3关节欠驱动手指的动力学模型,通过动态控制实验验证了动力学模型的正确性。该方法不仅避免了求解微分几何方程,并且直接派生出可解耦的动力学模型。可直接进行逆动力学分析、仿真和实时控制。同时,建立了基于动力学模型的速度观测器,用于轨迹跟踪,弥补了欠驱动手没有速度传感器的缺点,补偿了欠驱动环节造成的不确定因素。与PID或计算力矩法相比较,其轨迹跟踪误差更小,动态控制效果更好。     

多飞行机器人吊运系统研究进展及挑战

多飞行机器人吊运系统是指由多个旋翼飞行机器人、吊绳及单个悬挂负载共同构成的具有空中操作能力的一类新型机电系统,具有灵活性强、地域可达性好、运输便捷、载荷能力强等显著优点.多飞行机器人吊运系统应用广泛,但是其建模与控制还存在诸多挑战.旋翼飞行机器人自身是一种复杂的欠驱动非线性系统,随着吊绳和负载的引入,系统的耦合性、欠驱动特性和非线性也会随之增加.为了全面对多飞行机器人吊运系统的研究进行综述,首先介绍了多飞行机器人吊运系统的常见构型,并对比分析了其优缺点;其次,从动力学建模、协调控制、实验三个方面介绍了多飞行机器人吊运系统的研究现状与挑战;最后,凝练了现存的关键科学问题,对其潜在的应用领域和未来的研究工作进行了探讨与展望.     

基于Backstepping的欠驱动船舶神经滑模航迹控制

在外界干扰和参数不确定的情况下,设计一种基于Backstepping的自适应神经滑模控制器对欠驱动船舶神经滑模航迹进行控制。采用趋近律的滑模控制,抑制常规滑模的固定切换增益系数带来的抖振现象;利用神经网络辨识对象,减少趋近律滑模控制对对象模型参数的依赖。以某实习船为例进行仿真,结果表明:在标称参数下,所设计的控制器能够有效跟踪设定的航迹并抑制常规滑模控制器的抖振现象;在外部环境扰动以及参数摄动的情况下,仍然能够实现较好的控制,表现出强鲁棒性。     

基于PNDSC 的欠驱动AUV编队控制器设计

针对含有模型不确定与未知海洋环境扰动下的欠驱动自主水下航行器(AUV)的编队控制问题, 提出一种基于预估器的神经网络动态面(PNDSC) 控制算法. 将动态面法引入控制器的设计中, 采用神经网络逼近AUV模型中的不确定项与海洋环境的扰动, 并结合预估器设计了神经网络权值的离散迭代更新率. Lyapunov 稳定性分析表明, 闭环系统所有信号是一致最终有界的. 仿真结果验证了所提出方法的有效性.

     

Singularity‐avoiding swing‐up control for underactuated three‐link gymnast robot using virtual coupling between control torques

An underactuated three‐link gymnast robot (UTGR) is a simple model of a gymnast on a high bar. The control objective of a UTGR is to swing it up from a point near the straight‐down position and to stabilize it at the straight‐up position. To achieve this, we first divide the motion space into two subspaces, swing‐up area and balancing area, and design a controller for each. The design of a swing‐up control law that ensures that the UTGR enters the balancing area is crucial because the UTGR is subject to a nonholonomic constraint and is highly nonlinear during the swing‐up motion. This study focused on how to design a swing‐up control law that contains no singularities. The key concept is the introduction of a virtual coupling between control torques, which converts the problem of avoiding singularities to one of imposing constraints on the parameters of the control law and properly selecting those parameters. A swing‐up control law thus designed ensures that the UTGR enters the balancing area in a natural stretched‐out posture. This makes it easy to stabilize the UTGR in the balancing area. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Sliding Mode Control for Swing‐Up and Stabilization of the Cart‐Pole Underactuated System

This paper uses sliding mode control to accomplish the objectives of swing‐up and stabilization of the cart‐pole underactuated system. The features of underactuated systems prohibit direct application of conventional sliding mode control for fully‐actuated systems. In this paper, we design a novel sliding mode control for the cart‐pole underactuated system so that the control goals can be achieved. In addition, by simply changing the parameters of the sliding surface, we use only one sliding mode control scheme to swing up and to stabilize the cart‐pole system. Using the sliding mode dynamics and the internal dynamics, we show that the proposed sliding mode control can swing up the cart‐pole system from the stable equilibrium and can stabilize the system to the unstable equilibrium. Our simulation results on a cart‐pole system demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed sliding mode control. The proposed control schemes, the stability analysis, and the numerical simulation provide a useful guideline for designing the sliding mode control for the cart‐pole underactuated system.     

新型多自由度假手的研制

介绍了一种新型多自由度假手的机械结构、运动方式及其静力学分析．假手的主要结构部件由光敏树 脂制成,使用小型直流伺服电机作为驱动器．手指采用欠驱动及腱驱动方式．该假手具有拟人的外观、较低的整体 重量和对被抓物体外形的适应能力．文章研究了假手的运动特点及接触力规律,通过仿真对假手的接触受力规律进 行了校验．最后通过实验,对假手的运动规律与抓握能力进行了验证．     

自主水下航行器的变质心跟踪控制

The trajectory-tracking control problem is investigated for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) moving in the vertical plane using an internal point mass and a rear thruster as actuators. Combined with the dynamics of the point mass, the AUV is modeled as an underactuated system. A Lyapunov-based tracking controller is proposed by using backstepping approach to stabilize the error dynamics and force the position errors to a small neighborhood of the origin. Simulation results validate the proposed tracking approach.     

仿昆扑翼飞行器全解耦控制

针对仿昆扑翼飞行器飞行控制所面临的欠驱动问题,基于平均理论,提出采用周期时变反馈策略控制仿昆扑翼飞行器的策略,并给出了设计周期时变反馈控制器的输入参数化设计方法．该方法对飞行昆虫的扑翼运动进行仿生模拟,通过调整根翅运动参数,实现了对6个方向气动力和力矩的独立控制．本质上就是用参数表示欠驱动系统的输入,并以此构造周期时变反馈函数;从而在原系统中引入更多数目的独立控制量,将原系统转化为完全能控系统．然后,将此可控系统线性化,并利用线性反馈控制器设计工具设计其反馈控制律．仿真结果表明,基于该策略设计的控制器具有响应速度快、稳定误差小、鲁棒性强等特点．