Adaptive Control Methods For Mechanical Manipulators

Adaptive Control of Mechanical Manipulators

Adaptive Control for Robotic Manipulators

The robotic mechanism and its controller make a complete system. As the robotic mechanism is reconfigured, the control system has to be adapted accordingly. The need for the reconfiguration usually arises from the changing functional requirements. This book will focus on the adaptive control of robotic manipulators to address the changed conditions. The aim of the book is to summarise and introduce the state-of-the-art technologies in the field of adaptive control of robotic manipulators in order to improve the methodologies on the adaptive control of robotic manipulators. Advances made in the past decades are described in the book, including adaptive control theories and design, and application of adaptive control to robotic manipulators.

Adaptive Control Methods for Mechanical Manipulators

A new adaptive control law for mechanical manipulators that maintains uniformly good performance over a wide range of motions and payloads is developed. This control strategy combines properties from both the Model Reference Adaptive Control and the Self Tuning Regulator Theory and serves to extend the Adaptive Model Following Control approach into using a nonlinear reference model. The design procedure is simple resulting in an overall system which is globally stable and offers itself to microcomputer implementation. The effectiveness of the approach is demonstrated on several computer simulations which compares its performances against some of the commonly known adaptive control techniques. Also presented is a comparison of the computation complexity of different methods used in deriving the dynamic equations of motion of a mechanical manipulator as well as a survey of various robot control methodologies available in the literature today. Automatic control systems, Identification, Adaptive control and robotics. (EG).