Visual information is increasingly being used in a great number of applications in order to perform the guidance of joint structures. This paper proposes an image-based controller which allows the joint structure guidance when its number of degrees of freedom is greater than the required for the developed task. In this case, the controller solves the redundancy combining two different tasks: th...

Traditional compliance control of a rehabilitation robot is implemented in task space by using impedance or admittance control algorithms. The soft robot actuated by pneumatic muscle actuators (PMAs) is becoming prominent for patients as it enables the compliance being adjusted in each active link, which, however, has not been reported in the literature. This paper proposes a new compliance con...

This paper presents a controller for whole-arm obstacle avoidance for the slave robot in an unilateral teleoperated robotic system. The slave controller is free of robot inverse kinematics model, and it is conformed of two parts. First a cartesian PID controller is used to render closed loop system stability. The second controller part is the on-line solution of a dynamic optimization problem. ...

Efficient control of robotic manipulators is an important industrial problem, and this paper proposes the use of artificial neural networks as a possible solution. The computed torque control scheme in particular is examined, and neural networks are used for the task of modelling the robotic manipulators. This scheme is applied to a two axis robot, whose feedback is corrupted by noise. The comp...

A flexible-joint robot manipulator is a complex system because it is nonlinear, multivariable, highly coupled along with joint flexibility and uncertainty. To overcome flexibility, several methods have been proposed based on flexible model. This paper presents a novel method for controlling flexible-joint robot manipulators. A novel control law is presented by compensating flexibility to form a...

in recent years, there has been a fast growth in wind energy conversion system (wecs). there are two general types of wind turbines in wecs: fixed speed wind turbines and varying speed wind turbines.permanent magnet synchronous generator (pmsg) is one of the most attractive generators for the varying speed turbine wecs.in this paper, a fuzzy controller is proposed to control the current source ...

This article presents a novel on-line optimal control for redundant robot manipulators for which inverse kinematics is not required. The controller considers a Cartesian PID control that yields stability of the closed loop, but presents poor performance unless using high gains. A joint space dynamic optimal control based on the gradient flow approach is introduced to improve the performance of ...

A new position controller with gravity compensation for robot manipulators in joint space is proposed in this paper. The goal of position control problem for global asymptotically stability is achieved by using Lyapunov ’s direct method and LaSalle ’s invariance principle over the full non—linear mutivariable robot closed—loop system. In adition, this paper also presents experimental results on...

The problem of designing a globally optimal full-order output-feedback controller for polytopic uncertain systems is known to be a non-convex NP-hard optimization problem, that can be represented as a bilinear matrix inequality optimization problem for most design objectives. In this paper a new approach is proposed to the design of locally optimal controllers. It is iterative by nature, and st...

In this paper a new approach is proposed to design locally optimal robust output-feedback controllers. It is iterative by nature, and starting from any initial feasible controller it performs local optimization over a suitably defined non-convex function at each iteration. The approach features the properties of computational efficiency, guaranteed convergence to a local optimum, and applicabil...