This paper presents a dynamic-level control algorithm to meet simultaneously multiple desired tasks based on allocated priorities for redundant robotic systems. It is shown that this algorithm can be treated as a general framework to achieve control over the whole body of the robot. The control law is an extension of the well-known acceleration-based control to the redundant robots, and considers also possible interactions with the environment occurring at any point of the robot body. The stability of this algorithm is shown and some of the previously developed results are formulated using this approach. To handle the interaction on robot body, null space impedance control is developed within the multi-priority framework. The effectiveness of the proposed approaches is evaluated by means of computer simulation

In this paper a new approach for the null-space impedance control of a kinematically redundant robot is proposed. The approach is useful for the case where the robot experience an external interaction on the body, especially in the presence of humans. The proposed algorithm guarantees safe and dependable physical interaction of the robot body with the environment, thanks to the null-space impedance control. At the same time, the correct execution of the task assigned to the end effector is ensured by a disturbance observer. The algorithm does not require joint torque measurements. The performance of the proposed controller is verified through simulations on 7R KUKA lightweight robot arm

Active vibration control of a cylindrical shell using piezoelectric disks is studied both theoretically and experimentally in this paper. Hamilton's principle is used for deriving dynamic motion equations of the cylinder coupled with piezoelectric disks. The equations are discretised by Rayleigh-Ritz method. An adaptive feedforward controller based on steepest descent method is implemented on a PC to control the modal vibration. The proposed method solves the drawback of using PCs that is sending and receiving data in block form. It is shown that the proposed control system which consists of piezoelectric disks and an adaptive controller is effective in reducing vibration and radiated acoustic noise.

In this paper an adaptive multi-priority nonlinear control algorithm for a redundant manipulator system is developed based on the Lyapunov like approach. The method considers the parametric uncertainties in the system and defines a proper filtered error signal to achieve asymptotic stability and convergence in tracking error, both for the main task and sub-tasks according to the allocated priority. The performance of the proposed method is studied by some numerical simulations

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