An adaptive sliding mode controller (ASMC) based on characteristic model is designed to overcome the detrimental effect of large inertia ratio and large-range varying inertia in high accuracy servo systems. The servo system discrete characteristic model is established and adopted for the controller designed instead of using the traditional mechanism model. The recursive least square (RLS) algor...

This paper describes the mechanical configuration of a quadruped robot firstly. Each of the four legs consists of three rotary joints. All joints of the robot are actuated by linear hydraulic servo cylinders. Then it deduces the forward and inverse kinematic equations for four legs with D-H transformation matrices. Furthermore, it gives a composite foot trajectory composed of cubic curve and st...

This study aims to develop a X-Y dual-axial intelligent servo pneumatic-piezoelectric hybrid actuator for position control with high response, large stroke (250 mm, 200 mm) and nanometer accuracy (20 nm). In each axis, the rodless pneumatic actuator serves to position in coarse stroke and the piezoelectric actuator compensates in fine stroke. Thus, the overall control systems of the single axis...

This paper presents a disturbance estimation methodology on a Hexapod-type parallel kinematic machine tool of the Stewart platform. The disturbance estimation by monitoring an armature current of servo motors has been commonly done on conventional serial mechanism feed drives. On a parallel mechanism feed drive, a disturbance observer must have a more complex structure with a precise model of t...

This paper presents the optimal mechanism design and dynamic analysis of a prototype 3-leg 6-DOF (degree-of-freedom) parallel manipulator. Inverse kinematics, forward kinematics, inverse dynamics and working space characterizing the platform motion are derived. In the presented architecture, the base platform has three linear slideways individually actuated by a synchronous linear servo motor, ...