Identification of 6 DOF Rigid Industrial Robots with the Instrumental Variable Method

This paper deals with the topic of robots dynamics identification. In this paper, we focus on the instrumental variable (IV) technique. For robots, the set of instruments is the inverse dynamic model built from simulated data which are calculated from the integration of the direct dynamic model, assuming the same reference trajectories and the same control law structure for both actual and simulated robots. The integration of the direct dynamic model is based on previous IV estimates. This defines an iterative algorithm. Furthermore, gains of the simulated controller are updated to get a fast convergence. Experimental results obtained on a six degrees of freedom robot manufactured by Stäubli show the effectiveness of our approach: 60 dynamic parameters are estimated in only two iterations.