A robust and adaptive force/position control for two cooperating robot arms under uncertainty

This paper presents a motion coordination of a two-cooperating robot arm when there are unknown system parameters and bounded input disturbances. The order of the model of the two-arm system is reduced. To control this, a force/position control scheme based on an inverse dynamics control scheme is devised. On the top of the control scheme, an adaptive control scheme to take care of parametric uncertainties, and a robust control scheme to compensate coupling forces between two arms and input disturbances are devised. The adaptive and the robust control scheme are derived based on a devised Lyapunov function. The adaptive control algorithm is practical since it does not require the feedback of the second derivative of joint angles and interacting forces. The robust control scheme guarantees that the tracking error of the leader arm and the interacting forces between two arms are confined in a certain region. Numerical examples using dual 3 degree of freedom robot arm are shown.