Abstract The length of flexible manipulators with a telescopic arm alters during movement. dynamic parameters exhibit significant time-varying characteristics owing to variations in length. With an increase the manipulators’ length, nonlinear terms caused by flexibility equations cannot be ignored. and cause fluctuations rotation angles, which affect operation accuracy end-effectors. In this st...

A methodology for the formulation of dynamic equations of motion of a serial flexible-link manipulator using the decoupled natural orthogonal complement (DeNOC) matrices, introduced elsewhere for rigid bodies, is presented in this paper. First, the Euler Lagrange (EL) equations of motion of the system are written. Then using the equivalence of EL and Newton–Euler (NE) equations, and the DeNOC m...

Flexible manipulators are extensively used in industries. A theoretical analysis of intelligent tracking controller based on emotional learning model in mammalians brain for single-link flexible-joint manipulator is presented. Brain emotional learning based intelligent controller (BELBIC) is an intelligent controller based on the model of emotional part of brain. In this paper, BELBIC is applie...