the control law (3) does not only improves the transient performance, but also provides smoother outputs. It is important to stress that a better performance can still be achieved with (28) and (30). However, as discussed in Remark IV.1, increasing gains would not only cause more peaks in the outputs, but it might also yield saturation, especially for 2. V. CONCLUSION The tracking control probl...

Generally, the robot manipulators are classified into serial type open loop chains and parallel type closed loop chains. Since decades, robot manipulators were designed and operated using the open loop serial chains. In general, Robots used in industries are all general purpose manipulators, consisting of multiple rigid links and are connected in series by means of joints such as revolute, pris...

In this paper robust PID control of fully-constrained cable driven parallel manipulators with elastic cables is studied in detail. In dynamic analysis, it is assumed that the dominant dynamics of cable can be approximated by linear axial spring. To develop the idea of control for cable robots with elastic cables, a robust PID control for cable driven robots with ideal rigid cables is firstly de...

Force control is very important for many practical manipulation tasks of robot manipulators, such as, assembly, grinding, deburring that associate with interaction between the end-effector of the robot and the environment. Force control of the robot manipulator can be break down into two categories: Position/Force Hybrid Control and Impedance Control. The former is focused on regulation of both...

In this paper an analytic formulation of the statics and the instantaneous kinematics of robot manipulators based on the Grassmann-Cayley algebra is presented. The notions of twist, wrench, twist space and wrench space are mathematically represented by the concept of extensors of this algebra and the reciprocity relation between twist and wrench spaces of partially constrained rigid bodies is r...

1.1 Robot manipulators Robot manipulators are well-known as nonlinear systems including strong coupling between their dynamics (Craig, 1996). These characteristics, in company with: 1) structured uncertainties caused by model imprecision of link parameters, payload variation, etc., and 2) unstructured uncertainties produced by un-modeled dynamics –such as nonlinear friction and external disturb...

tthe uncertainty estimation and compensation are challenging problems for the robust control of robot manipulators which are complex systems. this paper presents a novel decentralized model-free robust controller for electrically driven robot manipulators. as a novelty, the proposed controller employs a simple gaussian radial-basis-function network as an uncertainty estimator. the proposed netw...

This paper describes and discusses the history and state of the art of continuous backbone robot manipulators. Also known as continuum manipulators, these robots, which resemble biological trunks and tentacles, offer capabilities beyond the scope of traditional rigid link manipulators. They are able to adapt their shape to navigate through complex environments and grasp a wide variety of payloa...

Tracking control of the direct-drive robot manipulators in high-speed is a challenging problem. The Coriolis and centrifugal torques become dominant in the high-speed motion control. The dynamical model of the robotic system including the robot manipulator and actuators is highly nonlinear, heavily coupled, uncertain and computationally extensive in non-companion form. In order to overcome thes...