A new terminal converging adaptive control for 6-degree-of-freedom parallel robotic manipulators with bounded control inputs. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, 231 (4). pp. 271-281. ISSN 0959-6518 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/31842We recommend you cite the published version. The publisher's URL is: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959651817698333Refereed: Yes (no note) Disclaimer UWE has obtained warranties from all depositors as to their title in the material deposited and as to their right to deposit such material. UWE makes no representation or warranties of commercial utility, title, or fitness for a particular purpose or any other warranty, express or implied in respect of any material deposited. UWE makes no representation that the use of the materials will not infringe any patent, copyright, trademark or other property or proprietary rights. UWE accepts no liability for any infringement of intellectual property rights in any material deposited but will remove such material from public view pending investigation in the event of an allegation of any such infringement.
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A New Terminal Converging
AbstractIn this study, a new terminal converging adaptive control approach with bounded control inputs is developed for the 6 degree of freedom (DOF) parallel robot manipulator. The non-smooth feedback control principle is combined with particular bounded functions to define both the control input and associated adaptive law. TheLyapunov method is used to present a stability analysis in order to prove that the error trajectories are semi-globally asymptotically stable. Numerical simulation results relating to a 6 DOF parallel robot are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach and to compare the performance obtained with other candidate control schemes. It is shown that the proposed scheme achieves more rapid error convergence and exhibits improved robustness whilst guaranteeing that the control signal remains within known bounds.Keywords: Non-smooth control, Saturation control, Robot manipulator, Parallel robot
IntroductionThe 6 DOF parallel robot manipulator has some superior properties when compared with its serial counterpart such as higher accuracy, higher stiffness and higher load-carrying capacity [1,2]. By virtue of these merits, they can be used as actuators for high precision operation of heavy payload such as a flight simulator, an astronomical telescope or machine-tools [3,4]. Such applications require high performance control, which means the designed control algorithm should achieve high precision and a fast convergence speed.From the point of view of systems and control, the 6 DOF parallel robot manipulator is a typical multi-input multi-output (MIMO), strongly coupled nonlinear system. Due to the complex dynamics and application environment, modeling error cannot be avoided. It is very challenging to design high performance control algorithms and this has attracted extens...