A study on industrial robotic manipulator model using model based predictive controls

In this study, a single input single output (SISO) neural generalized predictive control (NGPC) was applied to a six joint robotic manipulator. The SISO generalized predictive control (GPC) was also used for comparison. Modeling of the dynamics of the robotic manipulator was made by using the Lagrange–Euler equations. The cubic trajectory principle is used for position reference and velocity reference trajectories. A simulation program was prepared by using Delphi 6.0. All computations for manipulator dynamics model, GPC-SISO, and NGPC-SISO were done on PC with 1.6 GHz Centrino CPUs by using this program. The parameter estimation algorithm used in the GPC-SISO is Recursive Least Squares. The minimization algorithm used in the NGPC-SISO is Newton–Raphson. According to the simulation results, the results of the NGPC-SISO algorithm were better than those of the GPC-SISO algorithm.