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Reinforcement Fuzzy Q-Learning Incorporated with Genetic Kinematics Analysis for Self-organizing Holonomic Motion Control of Six-Link Stewart Platforms

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This paper contributes to the development of reinforcement fuzzy Q-learning incorporated with genetic kinematics analysis for self-organizing holonomic motion control of six-link Stewart platforms. The fuzzy theory is integrated with the Q-learning algorithm to develop a hybrid reinforcement learning strategy. Both the actions and the Q-functions in the classical Q-learning algorithm are inferred by means of fuzzy rules. The proposed hybrid reinforcement learning is then applied to self-organizing holonomic motion control of parallel Stewart platforms for industrial applications. After the kinematics analysis using a geometrical approach and genetic algorithm (GA)-based Newton–Raphson formulation, this study develops a practical control scheme that combines fuzzy Q-learning and proportional–integral–differential (PID) control scheme, called FQPID. In the proposed FQPID holonomic motion control method, the PID control gains are online-tuned via the fuzzy Q-learning computation process. An experimental Stewart platform consisting of six servo motors, adjustable links, and two platforms is constructed to illustrate the effectiveness of the presented methods. The experimental results are compared with some existing control methods using the same evaluation criterion. Through the experimental results and comparative works, the superiority of the proposed FQPID control scheme is presented and discussed.

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The authors are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments to improve the quality of this paper. This work is financially supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under the Grants MOST 109-2221-E-011-074, MOST 110-2221-E-011-121, MOST 111-2221-E-011-146-MY2, and MOST 111-2221-E-197-025.

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    Hsu-Chih Huang & Yu-Xiang Chen

  2. Graduate Institute of Automation and Control, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, 106335, Taiwan

    Sendren Sheng-Dong Xu & Chien-Ming Chen

  3. Advanced Manufacturing Research Center, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, 106335, Taiwan

    Sendren Sheng-Dong Xu

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Huang, HC., Xu, S.SD., Chen, YX. et al. Reinforcement Fuzzy Q-Learning Incorporated with Genetic Kinematics Analysis for Self-organizing Holonomic Motion Control of Six-Link Stewart Platforms. Int. J. Fuzzy Syst. 25, 1239–1255 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40815-022-01439-0

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