一种欠驱动柔性机器人模型的建立及控制

采用Lagrange建模方法建立了欠驱动柔性自平衡机器人的数学模型,对柔性关节部分考虑了其弹性势能,仿真验证了模型的正确性,刚度越大,机器人上半身角度跟踪越快.采用线性二次型最优控制有效地控制了柔性机器人的平衡问题,通过实验,验证了在状态不完全可观测情况下系统的可控性,实验表明,只需机器人上半身部分安装传感器即可控制机器人达到平衡状态.对机器人结构的设计提供了参考.     

欠驱动冗余度空间机器人优化控制

欠驱动控制是空间技术中容错技术的重要方面.本文研究了被动关节中有制动器的欠驱动冗余度空间机器人系统的运动优化控制问题.从系统动力学方程出发,分析了欠驱动冗余度空间机器人的优化能力和控制方法;给出了主、被动关节间的耦合度指标;提出了欠驱动冗余度空间机器人系统的“虚拟模型引导控制”方法,在这种方法中采用与欠驱动机器人机构等价的全驱动机器人作为模型来规划机器人的运动,使欠驱动系统在关节空间中逼近给出的规划轨迹,实现了机器人末端运动的连续轨迹运动优化控制;通过末关节为被动关节的平面三连杆机器人进行了仿真,仿真的结果证明了提出算法的有效性.     

输入有界的自由漂浮柔性空间机器人轨迹跟踪控制

针对自由漂浮柔性空间机器人轨迹跟踪控制问题, 首先利用拉格朗日和假设模态法建立了动力学模型. 分析系统动力学模型, 综合考虑欠驱动、柔性振动等特点, 将其简化为一种带有柔性振动扰动完全可控的动力学模型; 在此基础上, 考虑控制输入受限, 提出一种自适应状态反馈控制策略. 该策略采用自适应技术实时在线学习柔性振动扰动参数, 从而保证控制律对柔性振动扰动具有良好的鲁棒性; 最后, 基于Lyapunov方法证明了该控制策略能够实现关节期望轨迹的跟踪. 仿真验证了该控制策略对控制输入受限系统轨迹跟踪控制的有效性和可靠性.     

基于模型降阶的平面三连杆欠驱动机械系统位置控制

针对第一关节为被动的平面三连杆欠驱动机械系统,提出一种基于模型降阶的位置控制方法. 首先,建立平面三连杆欠驱动系统数学模型,并分析其积分特性;其次,将部分可积的三连杆系统分段降阶为两个完全可积的两连杆子系统,并基于两子系统获得系统驱动杆与欠驱动杆之间的状态约束关系;然后,利用粒子群优化算法,根据系统末端点目标位置计算驱动杆目标角度;最后,分别设计两连杆子系统控制器,实现系统从任意初始位置到任意目标位置的控制目标. 仿真结果验证所提控制策略的有效性.     

柔性关节柔性连杆机械臂的动力学建模

柔性关节柔性连杆机械臂是典型的非线性、强耦合、欠驱动系统,其控制难度高.对于这类系统,选择合适的动力学模型进行控制器设计对于提高控制性能是非常有帮助的.为此,研究了具有柔性关节柔性连杆机械臂的动力学建模问题,并提出了一种改进的建模方法.在该方法中,连接柔性连杆的柔性关节首先被简化为刚性关节和柔性连杆的弹性约束边界.然后,根据结构动力学理论、哈密顿原理和假设模态法建立系统的刚柔耦合动力学方程.相较于将柔性关节简化为刚性关节和扭簧的传统处理方式,所采用的简化方式一方面可以降低系统的自由度,另一方面可以得到更适合控制器设计的动力学模型.最后,通过数值仿真验证了本文方法的有效性和优势.     

柔性机械臂的变结构振动控制研究

当机械臂的质量很轻,尤其是空间应用场合,机器人系统将受到高度柔性限制并且不可避免地产生机械振动.本文为了证实提出的控制不期望残余振动的方法,设计并建立了柔性机器人实验平台.控制方案采用交流伺服电机通过谐波齿轮减速器驱动柔性机械臂,利用粘贴在柔性臂上的压电陶瓷片(PZT)作为传感器来检测柔性臂的振动.对由于环境激励,尤其是在电机转动(机动)时由于电机力矩产生的振动,采用了几种主动振动控制器包括模态PD控制,软变结构控制(VSC)和增益选择变结构方法,进行柔性臂的振动主动控制实验研究.通过实验比较研究,结果表明采用的控制方法可以快速抑制柔性结构的振动,采用的控制方法是有效的.     

平面双连杆受限柔性机器人臂的动力学建模*

对一类平面双连杆受限柔性机器人臂的动力学建模问题进行研究，利用Ｄ’Ａｌｅｍｂｅｒｔ－Ｌａｇｒａｎｇｅ原理得到了一组描述该机器人系统运动性态的动力学方程。与已有的动力学模型相比，本文所建立的运动方程和振动方程具有模型准确、结构简单等特点，且具有与传统无约束刚性机器人类似的模型形式，因而有可能直接或间接利用现有的关于刚性机器人运动控制等方面的成果来研究复杂的受限柔性机器人的控制问题。     

柔性关节机器人抓取末端振动自动化控制方法

为了提高柔性关节机器人抓取末端振动控制精度,该文提出柔性关节机器人抓取末端振动自动化控制方法。对柔性关节机器人展开系统动力学分析,构建奇异摄动模型定义柔性关节机器人系统的运动方程。设计柔性关节机器人的优化控制器,构建控制误差代价函数。利用拉格朗日法获取函数最优解,实现柔性关节机器人抓取末端振动自动化控制。实验结果表明,该方法能够有效抑制柔性关节机器人末端振动信号,相位控制误差均在0.02°以内,抑振措施的上升时间低于7.66 s,末端控制精准度高、效率高、性能好。     

欠驱动两关节平面机械手的控制

欠驱动平面机械手是带有非完整约束的高度非线性系统,对其进行有效的控制仍然是个难点热点问题。针对最具代表性的两关节情形,给出了欠驱动两关节平面机械手的动力学方程,据此分析了该系统的可积性、线性化、稳定性、可控性和可反馈镇定性。根据控制目标的不同,将控制任务分为镇定到流形、镇定到单个平衡点和跟踪时变信号3种。针对这3种控制任务,分别回顾了各种已有的控制方式,仔细分析了它们的优点和有待改进的地方。最后探索了欠驱动平面机械手的研究中需要解决的几个关键问题,指出未来的可能研究方向。     

基于免疫优化的平面Acrobot线性自抗扰鲁棒镇定

针对受不确定性影响的平面Acrobot机器人,提出一种基于免疫优化的线性自抗扰鲁棒控制设计方法,实现机器人末端点从任意初始位置到达并镇定在目标位置.首先,借助驱动关节与被动关节角度之间的状态约束获取机器人末端点位置与驱动关节角度的对应关系,使末端点的位置控制转换为驱动关节的角度控制;其次,为缩短运动路径加入最小角度位移限制条件,设计免疫算法求解目标位置所对应的驱动关节角度的最小期望值;再次,引入线性自抗扰控制技术,把机器人的模型不确定性、未知干扰等因素视为一个新的扩张状态变量,设计线性扩张状态观测器和基于状态误差的反馈控制器,在仅驱动关节角度可测的情况下实现Acrobot的鲁棒镇定;最后,通过仿真实验验证所提出方法具有更好的鲁棒控制性能.     

Vibration Control of a Planar Parallel Manipulator Using Piezoelectric Actuators

This paper presents an active damping control approach applied to piezoelectric actuators attached to flexible linkages of a planar parallel manipulator for the purpose of attenuation of unwanted mechanical vibrations. Lightweight linkages of parallel manipulators deform under high acceleration and deceleration, inducing unwanted vibration of linkages. Such vibration must be damped quickly to reduce settling time of the manipulator platform position and orientation. An integrated control system for a parallel manipulator is proposed to achieve precise path tracking of the platform while damping the undesirable manipulator linkage vibration. The proposed control system consists of a PD feedback control scheme for rigid body motion of the platform, and a linear velocity feedback control scheme applied to piezoelectric actuators to damp unwanted linkage vibrations. In this paper, we apply the proposed vibration suppression algorithm to two different types of piezoelectric actuators and evaluate their respective performances. The two piezoelectric actuators are (i) a PVDF layer applied to the flexible linkage and (ii) PZT actuator segments also applied to the linkage. Simulation results show that both piezoelectric actuators achieve good performance in vibration attenuation of the planar parallel manipulator. The dynamics of the planar parallel platform are selected such that the linkages have considerable flexibility, to better exhibit the effects of the vibration damping control system proposed.     

Dynamic modeling and vibration characteristics analysis of flexible-link and flexible-joint space manipulator

With the development of space technology, lighter and larger space manipulators will be born, of which flexible characteristics are more obvious. The manipulator vibration caused by the flexibility not only reduces the efficiency of the manipulator but also affects the accuracy of the operation. The flexibility of space manipulator mainly comes from structural flexibility of links and transmission flexibility of harmonic gear reducer in joints. The vibrations generated by these two kinds of flexibility are coupled and transformed mutually, making the dynamics characteristics of space manipulator system complicated. Therefore it is difficult to assess respective effects of these flexibilities on vibrations of the manipulator tip. And the characteristics of integrated vibration of manipulator tip with different link and joint stiffnesses are not very clear. In this paper, the dynamic equations of multi-link multi-DOF flexible manipulator are established. Then, vibration responses of the tip under different elastic modulus, damping and joint stiffness were studied, and vibration characteristics of the tip with both link and joint were also analyzed. Moreover, the effects of motion planning on the vibration of the tip were analyzed. Finally, the vibration characteristics of the manipulator with flexible joints and links are verified by a two-degree-of-freedom manipulator experimental system. Dynamics analysis results presented some useful rules for the path planning and control to suppress the vibration of the flexible space manipulator.     

Vibration analysis of cable-driven parallel manipulators

A cable-driven parallel manipulator is a manipulator whose end-effector is driven by a number of parallel cables instead of rigid links. Since cables always have more flexibility than rigid links, a cable manipulator bears a concern of possible vibration. Thus, investigation of vibration of cable manipulators caused by cable flexibility is important for applications requiring high system stiffness or bandwidth. This paper provides a vibration analysis of general 6-DOF cable-driven parallel manipulators. Based on the analysis of the natural frequencies of the multibody system, the study demonstrates that a cable manipulator can be designed stiff enough for special applications like the cable-manipulator based hardware-in-the-loop simulation of contact dynamics. Moreover, under an excitation, a cable may vibrate not only in its axial direction, but also in its transversal direction. The paper also analyzes the vibration of cable manipulators caused by cable flexibilities in both axial and transversal directions. It is shown that the vibration of a cable manipulator due to the transversal vibration of cables can be ignored comparing to that due to the axial flexibility of cables.     

A systematic formulation of dynamic equations for robot manipulators with elastic links

Although a variety of formulation schemes for the dynamic equations of robot manipulators with rigid links can be found in the literature, an efficient method of the formulation for robot manipulators with elastic links is not well known. Accordingly, this work presents the derivation of the equations of motion for application to mechanical manipulators with elastic links. The formulation is conducted analytically using Hamilton's principle. The resultant equations consist of the terms of inertial, Coriolis, centrifugal, gravitational, and exerted forces. They are expressed in terms of a set of independent generalized coordinates. In contrast to conventional variational approaches, the present method provides an efficient and systematic way for obtaining the compact symbolic equations of flexible manipulator systems. Two examples are presented to illustrate the proposed methodology. Firstly, a three-link flexible manipulator with three revolute joints is studied. A flexible manipulator consisting of a prismatic joint and a discrete mass is the second model.     

Underactuated Flexible Aerial Manipulators: a New Framework for Optimal Trajectory Planning Under Constraints Induced by Complex Dynamics

The aerial manipulators (AMs) are a new class of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) that are created in response to the ever-increasing demand for autonomous object transportation and manipulation. Because of power supply restrictions, the load carrying capacity is limited and therefore it is necessary to reduce the overall weight of these UASs. The past works in the field of AMs consider the multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as the base and manipulators with rigid links as the interactive elements with the environment which are bulky and heavy. To overcome the issue, this paper introduces the AMs endowed with flexible manipulators, their dynamic modeling, a new method for trajectory planning and control algorithm such that the unfavorable effects of using flexible elements like vibrations are minimized. Due to lack of kinematic constraints and the presence of flexibility conditions, conventional methods of trajectory planning for ground wheeled-mobile manipulators (GWMMs) such as extended and augmented Jacobian matrix cannot be applied to AMs. The addition of flexibility to the manipulator increases underactuation degrees (UADs), the complexity of trajectory planning and control synthesis. Considering large deformation assumption for flexible links, the dynamic equations and their induced nonholonomic constraints are derived applying Lagrangian formulation. Then, these constraints with that part of equations of motion corresponding to the links flexibility are solved simultaneously in the context of an optimization algorithm resulting in optimized trajectories. Through simulation results, the proposed method of trajectory planning and vibration control of underactuated flexible AMs has been shown to be effective.     

Partial differential equation modeling and vibration control for a nonlinear 3D rigid‐flexible manipulator system with actuator faults

In this paper, modeling and controlling problem for a two‐link rigid‐flexible manipulator in three‐dimensional (3D) space is studied under actuator faults. For modeling, the dynamics of the 3D mechanical system is represented by nonlinear partial differential equations, which is first derived in infinite dimension form. Based on the nonlinear model, the controller is proposed, which can achieve joint angle control and vibration suppression control in the presence of actuator faults. The stability analysis of the closed‐loop system is given based on LaSalle invariance principle. Numerical simulations illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller. This study will promote the development of nonlinear flexible manipulator systems in 3D space.     

Hybrid Control Scheme for Robust Tracking of Two-Link Flexible Manipulator

The hybrid control scheme is proposed to stabilize the vibration of a two-link flexible manipulator while the robustness of Variable Structure Control (VSC) developed for rigid manipulators is maintained for controlling the joint angles. The VSC law alone, which is designed to accomplish only the asymptotic decoupled joint angle trajectory tracking, does not guarantee the stability of the flexible mode dynamics of the links. In order to actively suppress the flexible link vibrations, hybrid trajectories for the VSC are generated using the virtual control force concept, so that robust tracking control of the flexible-link manipulator can also be accomplished. Simulation results confirm that the proposed hybrid control scheme can achieve more robust tracking control of two-link flexible manipulator than the conventional control scheme in the presence of payload uncertainty.     

Hybrid Control Scheme for Robust Tracking of Two-Link Flexible Manipulator

A hybrid control scheme is proposed to stabilize the vibration of a two-link flexible manipulator while robustness of Variable Structure Control (VSC) developed for rigid manipulators is maintained for controlling the joint angles. The VSC law alone, which is designed to accomplish only the asymptotic decoupled joint angle trajectory tracking, does not guarantee the stability of the flexible mode dynamics of the links. In order to actively suppress the flexible link vibrations, hybrid trajectories for the VSC are generated using the virtual control force concept, so that robust tracking control of the flexible-link manipulator can also be accomplished. Simulation results confirm that the proposed hybrid control scheme can achieve more robust tracking control of two-link flexible manipulator than the conventional control scheme in the presence of payload uncertainty.     

一种双连杆柔性臂动力学模型的研究

针对末端位置受约束的双连杆柔性机械臂,通过哈密顿原理得到系统的分布参数模型,推导了描述关节角,柔性杆振动和接触力之间关系的动力学模型.根据3个假设条件推导柔性臂简化的集中参数动力学模型及准静态方程,利用了计算力矩法设计的控制器对模型进行控制,通过Matlab进行仿真,利用Matlab的符号运算功能,编制M文件实现数学模型自动推导,整个建模和运算过程简单、直观和高效,并绘制了参数轨迹图像,验证了模型的有效性,已应用到小波神经网络控制算法研究中.