“…The model of flexible joint manipulator was proposed for the first time in [9]. Since then, many control methods have been applied to improve the tracking performance of the flexible joint manipulator model, such as PID control [10,11], fuzzy control [12,13], sliding mode control [14,15], backstepping control [16,17], robust control [18,19], neural network control [20], and dynamic surface control [21]. For example, in [10], the author designed a PD controller, similar to a rigid robot for a flexible joint robot system, the effectiveness of which was proved by simulation.…”