Further results on adaptive iterative learning control of robot manipulators

Based on a combination of a PD controller and a switching type two-parameter compensation force, an iterative learning controller with a projection-free adaptive algorithm is presented in this paper for repetitive control of uncertain robot manipulators. The adaptive iterative learning controller is designed without any a priori knowledge of robot parameters under certain properties on the dynamics of robot manipulators with revolute joints only. This new adaptive algorithm uses a combined time-domain and iteration-domain adaptation law allowing to guarantee the boundedness of the tracking error and the control input, in the sense of the infinity norm, as well as the convergence of the tracking error to zero, without any a priori knowledge of robot parameters. Simulation results are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the learning controller.     

Adaptive iterative learning control for robot manipulators

In this paper, we propose some adaptive iterative learning control (ILC) schemes for trajectory tracking of rigid robot manipulators, with unknown parameters, performing repetitive tasks. The proposed control schemes are based upon the use of a proportional-derivative (PD) feedback structure, for which an iterative term is added to cope with the unknown parameters and disturbances. The control design is very simple in the sense that the only requirement on the PD and learning gains is the positive definiteness condition and the bounds of the robot parameters are not needed. In contrast to classical ILC schemes where the number of iterative variables is generally equal to the number of control inputs, the second controller proposed in this paper uses just two iterative variables, which is an interesting fact from a practical point of view since it contributes considerably to memory space saving in real-time implementations. We also show that it is possible to use a single iterative variable in the control scheme if some bounds of the system parameters are known. Furthermore, the resetting condition is relaxed to a certain extent for a certain class of reference trajectories. Finally, simulation results are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed controllers.     

基于迭代学习控制的移动机器人轨迹跟踪控制

为提高移动机器人对特定轨迹的重复跟踪能力,提出了采用开闭环PD型迭代学习控制算法对移动机器人进行轨迹跟踪控制的方法。建立了包含外界干扰的非完整约束条件下的轮式移动机器人运动学模型,给出了系统的控制算法和控制结构。仿真结果表明,采用开闭环PD型迭代学习控制算法对轨迹跟踪是可行有效的,收敛速度优于其他迭代学习算法。     

Velocity field control of a class of electrically-driven manipulators

This article addresses the control of robotic manipulators under the assumption that the desired motion in the operational space is encoded through a velocity field. In other words, a vectorial function assigns a velocity vector to each point in the robot workspace. Thus, the control objective is to design a control input such that the actual operational space velocity of the robot end-effector asymptotically tracks the desired velocity from the velocity field. This control formulation is known in the literature as velocity field control. A new velocity field controller together with a rigorous stability analysis is introduced in this article. The controller is developed for a class of electrically-driven manipulators. In this class of manipulators, the passivity property from the servo-amplifier voltage input to the joint velocity is not satisfied. However, global exponential stability of the state space origin of the closed-loop system is proven. Furthermore, the closed-loop system is proven to be and output strictly passive map from an auxiliary input to a filtered error signal. To confirm the theoretical conclusions, a detailed experimental study in a two degrees-of-freedom direct-drive manipulator is provided. Particularly, experiments consist of comparing the performance of a simple PI controller and a high-gain PI controller with respect to the new control scheme.     

存在环境约束的机器人自适应迭代学习控制

针对存在不确定性和外界干扰的受限机器人系统提出一种自适应迭代学习控制律.不确定性参数被估计在时间域内,同时重复性外界干扰在迭代域内得到补偿.通过引入饱和学习函数,保证了闭环系统所有信号有界.借助Lyapunov复合能量函数法,证明了系统渐进收敛到期望轨迹的同时,能够保证力跟踪误差有界可调.     

一种改进的移动机器人轨迹跟踪迭代学习方法

通过对轮式移动机器人轨迹跟踪优化问题的研究,提出了一种适应性强、收敛速度快且跟踪误差小的迭代滤波学习控制方法,充分发挥了迭代学习控制和Kalman滤波算法的优势,通过引入状态补偿项和设计新的迭代学习增益矩阵对迭代学习律进行了改进。改进的迭代学习控制能够更快速、更精确、更有效地跟踪期望的圆轨迹。采用离散的Kalman滤波器对干扰和噪声进行滤波,抑制了干扰和噪声对轨迹跟踪的影响,使该控制算法更适合于工程应用。计算机实验和仿真表明该方法具有较好的轨迹跟踪能力。     

不确定性机器人系统自适应鲁棒迭代学习控制

利用Lyapunov方法, 提出了一种不确定性机器人系统的自适应鲁棒迭代学习控制策略, 整个系统在迭代域里是全局渐近稳定的. 所考虑的机器人系统同时包含了结构和非结构不确定性. 在设计时, 系统的不确定性被分解成可重复性和非重复性两部分, 并考虑了系统的标称模型. 在所提出的控制策略中, 自适应策略用来估算做法确定性的界, 界的修正与迭代学习控制量一样的迭代域得以实现的. 计算机仿真表明本文提出的控制策略是有效的.     

Two adaptive control structures of robot manipulators

This paper proposes two simple adaptive control schemes of robot manipulators. The first one is the state feedback control which consists of feedforward from the desired position trajectory, PD feedback from the actual trajectory, and an auxiliary input. The second one is the feedforward/feedback control which consists of a feedforward term from the desired position, velocity, and acceleration trajectory based on the inverse of robot dynamics. The feedforward, feedback, and auxiliary gains are adapted using simple equations derived from the decentralized adaptive control theory based on Lyapunov's direct method, and using only the local information of the corresponding joint. The proposed control schemes are computationally fast and do not require a priori knowledge of the detail parameters of the manipulator or the payload. Simulation results are presented in support of the proposed schemes. The results demonstrate that both controllers perform well with bounded adaptive gains.     

基于观测器跟踪非一致轨迹的迭代学习控制器设计

针对状态难以直接测量的一类不确定非线性系统,基于状态观测器进行相应的迭代学习控制设计,可实现在给定区间上对变轨迹的全局精确跟踪．当任意两次迭代的目标轨迹完全不同,并且系统状态信息不完全已知时,通过引入能量函数的方法,可以证明随迭代次数增加,跟踪误差渐近收敛至零．仿真结果验证了结果的有效性．     

迭代扩张状态观测器及其在迭代学习控制中的应用

针对一类迭代学习控制(ILC)系统的不确定项,根据时域中扩张状态观测器的思想,提出迭代域中线性迭代扩张状态观测器(LIESO),该线性迭代扩张状态观测器可以利用迭代过程的跟踪误差给出迭代学习控制系统的不确定项的显式估计。给出了基于该估计的迭代学习控制算法,并应用类Lyapunov方法证明其收敛性。仿真结果表明,所提出的迭代学习控制算法是有效的,应用迭代扩张状态观测器可以大幅度提高迭代学习效率。     

Iterative learning control and the singularity robust Jacobian inverse for mobile manipulators

The method of iterative learning control, to a large extent, has been inspired by robotics research, focused on the control of stationary manipulators. In this article we deal with the inverse kinematics problem for mobile manipulators, and show that a very basic singularity robust Jacobian inverse can be derived in a natural way within the framework of iterative learning control. To achieve this objective we have exploited the endogenous configuration space approach. The introduced Jacobian inverse defines the singularity robust Jacobian inverse kinematics algorithm for mobile manipulators. A Kantorovich-type estimate of the region of guaranteed convergence of the algorithm is derived. For two example kinematics, this estimate has been computed efficiently.     

基于边界层的不确定机器人自适应迭代学习控制

针对不确定的多连杆机械手的跟踪控制问题,提出一种基于边界层的自适应迭代学习控制方法.自适应控制用来估计系统的未知参数的上界,本文主要特征是基于边界层设计自适应迭代学习控制器,避免了传统方法设计控制器的不连续性,削弱抖振现象的同时也提高系统的鲁棒性.理论证明系统所有信号有界,系统误差渐进收敛到边界层邻域内.仿真表明了算法的有效性.     

Adaptive P‐type iterative learning radial basis function control for robot manipulators with unknown varying disturbances and unknown input dead zone

This article proposes an adaptive iterative learning radial basis function (RBF) scheme to solve the trajectory‐tracking problem for perturbed robot manipulators with unknown iteration varying disturbances and unknown dead‐zone input. It is well known that the presence of the dead zone in actuators and mechatronics devices gives rise to extra difficulty due to the presence of singularity in the input channels. Hence, it is interesting to take this problem into account when synthesizing a controller. This synthesis is made here. In addition, the control design is very simple in the sense that we use, only, the proportional gain. Therefore, the considerable amount noise caused by the sensors for velocity measurements of robot manipulators is avoided. Another advantage of this work is that the unknown disturbances are assumed to be time varying and also varying from iteration to iteration. Thus, the RBF neural network is used to approximate these unknown nonlinear functions. Using the Lyapunov theory, the analysis of the stability of the closed‐loop system is guaranteed when the iteration number tends to infinity. Finally, simulation results on the PUMA 560 arm are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. In order to evaluate the performance of our controller, a comparison of our results with other method is also given.     

Robust control of robot manipulators based on uncertainty and disturbance estimation

In this work, uncertainty and disturbance estimation (UDE) based robust trajectory tracking controller for rigid link manipulators was proposed. The UDE was employed to estimate the composite uncertainty that comprises the effects of system nonlinearities, external disturbances, and parametric uncertainties. A feedback linearization based controller was designed for trajectory tracking, and the same was augmented by the UDE‐estimated uncertainties to achieve robustness. The resulting controller however required measurement of joint velocities apart from the joint positions. To address the issue, an observer that employed the UDE‐estimated uncertainties for robustness was proposed, giving rise to the UDE‐based controller–observer structure. Closed‐loop stability of the overall system was established. The notable feature of the proposed design was that it neither required accurate plant model nor any information about the uncertainty. Also, the design needed only joint position measurements for its implementation. To demonstrate the effectiveness, simulation results of the proposed approach as applied to the trajectory tracking control of two‐link robotic manipulator and comparison of its performance with some of the well‐known existing controllers were presented. Lastly, hardware implementation of the proposed design for trajectory control of Quanser's single‐link flexible joint module was carried out, and it was shown that the proposed strategy offered a viable approach for designing implementable robust controllers for robots. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于扩张状态观测器的鲁棒迭代学习控制

针对一类包含模型不确定和外界干扰等非重复扰动的线性离散系统,本文通过将迭代学习控制与自抗扰技术相结合,提出一种新的基于扩张观测器的鲁棒迭代学习控制方法.本文以时间轴和迭代轴两个方向同时出发考虑系统的非重复扰动估计和稳定收敛问题.将与时间和迭代轴同时相关的模型不确定及外界干扰等因素归纳为系统总扰动,针对其非重复变化特性给出了扩张观测器的设计,保证在批次内快速、准确地估计系统总扰动;基于上述扰动估计,设计新型的迭代学习控制律,利用线性矩阵不等式方法证明了整个鲁棒迭代学习系统的稳定性和收敛性,并给出合理的控制器参数估计条件.此外,讨论了迭代学习控制中第一批次的控制律设计问题,给出合理的自抗扰控制器设计.最后通过仿真对比实验验证了本文方法的可行性和有效性.     

严格反馈系统约束迭代学习控制

针对一类含有状态约束和任意初态的严格反馈非线性系统,本文提出了基于二次分式型障碍李雅普诺夫函数的误差跟踪学习控制算法.二次分式型障碍李雅普诺夫函数保证了系统跟踪误差在迭代过程中限制于预设的界内,进而保持状态在约束区间内.引入一级数收敛序列用于处理扰动对系统跟踪性能的影响.构造期望误差轨迹解决了系统的初值问题.经迭代学习...     

含输入死区系统的滤波误差初始修正迭代学习控制

针对一类输入环节含死区非线性特性且误差初值非零的非参数不确定系统,提出滤波误差初始修正学习控制方案,分别解决死区斜率下限可知与未知两种情形下的轨迹跟踪问题.给出了两种修正滤波误差信号构造方法,并根据Lyapunov综合方法设计学习控制器,采用鲁棒学习策略处理非参数不确定性和死区非线性特性.经过足够多次迭代后,实现滤波误差在预设的作业区间也收敛于零.文中所提出的控制方案,具有构造简单与实施方便的特点,仿真结果表明了本文所提控制方法的有效性.     

Variable-gain PD-type iterative learning control for a class of nonlinear time-varying systems

This paper investigates variable-gain PD-type iterative learning control (ILC) for a class of nonlinear time-varying systems to well balance high-gain convergence rate and low-gain noise transmission. Different from the classic PD-type ILC, the control gains of the proposed method are variable. Each variable-gain consists of an amplitude-dependent term and an iteration-varying term. The amplitude-dependent terms vary with the amplitudes of tracking error and derivative of tracking error, and the iteration-varying terms are increasing along the iteration axis. The proposed ILC achieves a faster convergence rate than low-gain ILC and higher tracking accuracy with limited noise amplification than high-gain ILC. Moreover, the convergence condition of the proposed method in the presence of external noise is provided. Simulation and experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

基于迭代学习观测器的航天器姿态主动容错控制

针对含有外部扰动和执行器故障的一类航天器姿态控制系统,本文提出基于迭代学习观测器的主动容错控制方案.首先,建立了含有外部扰动和执行器故障的航天器姿态控制系统的运动学和动力学模型.其次,为了提高观测器的故障估计精度,在传统迭代学习观测器设计基础上引入上一时刻状态估计误差信息,文章提出一种改进型学习估计算法.进一步,基于滑模控制和指定时间稳定理论,利用学习观测器的故障估计信息设计指定时间主动容错控制器.与现有的航天器主动容错控制方案相比,本文所提出的算法的优势在于可以使故障系统的姿态能在指定时间跟踪上指令信号.基于Lyapunov方法,本文从理论上证明了改进型学习观测器和姿态容错控制系统的稳定性.最后,通过数值仿真,说明了所提容错控制方案的有效性和可行性.     

输入受限机器人的鲁棒自适应输出反馈跟踪控制

在输入受限的情况下，通过一个线性一阶滤波器，实现机器人的鲁棒自适应输出反馈跟踪控制，解决了自适应控制算法的鲁棒性问题，即当满足持续激励条件及估计参数域包含参数真实值时，闭环系统能够实瑰渐近穗定跟踪，本算法简单有效，不仅提高了鲁棒性，改善了控制品质，同时对于参数域估计误差也具有很强的鲁棒性，仿真算饲验证了算法的有效性。