Space manipulators mounted on an on-o thruster-controlled base are envisioned to assist in the assembly and maintenance of space structures. When handling large payloads, manipulator joint and link exibility become important, for it can result in payload-attitude controller fuel-replenishing dynamic interactions. In this paper, the dynamic behaviour of a oneexiblejoint manipulator on a freeying...

We present a probabilistic architecture for solving generically the problem of extracting the task constraints through a Programming by Demonstration (PbD) framework and for generalizing the acquired knowledge to various situations. In previous work, we proposed an approach based on Gaussian Mixture Regression (GMR) to find a controller for the robot reproducing the statistical characteristics ...

Space manipulators mounted on a on-o thrustercontrolled base are envisioned to assist in the assembly and maintenance of space structures. When handling large payloads, manipulator joint and link exibility become important, for it can result in payloadattitude controller fuel-replenishing dynamic interactions. In this paper, the dynamic behavior of a exiblejoint manipulator on a freeying base i...

A new control law for elastic joint robots that allows to regulate an energy function of the system to a desired value is presented in this paper. Being able to either remove energy from the system or inject into it, oscillations can be both damped out and induced. The proposed nonlinear dynamic state feedback controller forces the system to evolve on a submanifold of the configuration space. T...

This paper presents a robust tracking controller equipped with a fast friction estimator for a 6-DOF parallel electrical manipulator in the joint-task space. Parallel manipulator control scheme mainly stems from two frameworks: the task space control and the joint space control. The former requires the system states obtained via costly direct measurements or time-consuming forward kinematics. T...

This paper presents a novel robust fractional PIλ controller design for flexible joint electrically driven robots. Because of using voltage control strategy, the proposed approach is free of problems arising from torque control strategy in the design and implementation. In fact, the motor's current includes the effects of nonlinearities and coupling in the robot manipulator. Therefore, cancella...

The present paper investigates an intuitive way of robot path planning, called robot teaching by demonstration. In this method, an operator holds the robot end-effector and moves it through a number of positions and orientations in order to teach it a desired task. The presented control architecture applies impedance control in such a way that the end-effector follows the operator’s hand with d...

In this paper, optimization of the backstepping controller parameters in a grid-connected single-phase inverter is studied using Imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA), Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The controller is developed for the system based on state-space averaged model. By selection of a suitable Lyapunov function, stability of the proposed con...

This paper presents a hybrid system approach in the design of a singularityless task level controller. To achieve a singularityless motion control in the neighborhood of singularity, the hybrid system approach is used to integrate the task level controller and joint level controller. First, a hybrid system model is developed for the singularityless task level controller. A Max-Plus dynamic mode...

Before making a movement aimed at achieving a task, human beings either run a mental process that attempts to find a feasible course of action (at the same time, it must be compatible with a number of internal and external constraints and near-optimal according to some criterion) or select it from a repertoire of previously learned actions, according to the parameters of the task. If neither re...