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Decentralized Robust Control Of Robot Manipulators With Harmonic Drive Transmission And Application To Modular And Reconfigurable Serial Arms, Z. Li, W. W. Melek, Christopher M. Clark
Decentralized Robust Control Of Robot Manipulators With Harmonic Drive Transmission And Application To Modular And Reconfigurable Serial Arms, Z. Li, W. W. Melek, Christopher M. Clark
Computer Science and Software Engineering
In this paper, we propose a decentralized robust control algorithm for modular and reconfigurable robots (MRRs) based on Lyapunov’s stability analysis and backstepping techniques. In using decentralized control schemes with robot manipulators, each joint is considered as an independent subsystem, and the dynamical effects from the other links and joints are treated as disturbance. However, there exist many uncertainties due to unmodeled dynamics, varying payloads, harmonic drive (HD) compliance, HD complex gear meshing mechanisms, etc. Also, while the reconfigurability of MRRs is advantageous, modifying the configuration will result in changes to the robot dynamics parameters, thereby making it challenging to …