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Robust adaptive control of redundant manipulators

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This paper presents an adaptive scheme for the motion control of kinematically redundant manipulators. The proposed controller is very general and computationally efficient since it does not require knowledge of either the mathematical model or the parameter values of the robot dynamics, and is implemented without calculation of the robot inverse dynamics or inverse kinematic transformation. It is shown that the control strategy is globally stable in the presence of bounded disturbances, and that in the absence of disturbances the size of the residual tracking errors can be made arbitrarily small. The performance of the controller is illustrated through computer simulations with a nine degree-of-freedom (DOF) compound manipulator consisting of a relatively small, fast six-DOF manipulator mounted on a large three-DOF positioning device. These simulations demonstrate that the proposed scheme provides accurate and robust trajectory tracking and, moreover, permits the available redundancy to be utilized so that a high bandwidth response can be achieved over a large workspace.

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  2. Department of Industrial Engineering, New Mexico State University, 88003, Las Cruces, NM, USA

    K. Glass

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Colbaugh, R., Glass, K. Robust adaptive control of redundant manipulators. J Intell Robot Syst 14, 69–88 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01254008

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