VARIABLE STRUCTURE MODEL－FOLLOWING ADAPTIVE CONTROL DESIGN FOR ROBOT MANIPULATORS

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VARIABLE STRUCTURE MODEL-FOLLOWING ADAPTIVE CONTROL DESIGN FOR ROBOT MANIPULATORS

The increasing demand on robotic system performance leads to the use of advanced control strategies. A variable structure model-following adaptive control design is presented for the nonlinear robot manipulator systems, when subjected to fast and wide ranges of unknown-but-bounded parameter variations and disturbances. The design does not require any knowledge of a nonlinear robotic system. The system is robust and insensitive to the parameter variation, disturbances, as well as to the unmodeled dynamics. This insensitive property enables the elimination of interactions among the various joints of the robotic manipulator. In the closed loop, the robotic system asymptotically converges to the reference trajectory with a Prescribed transient resPOnse. The problem of chattering is discussed with the introduction of the special approaches: boundary layer, smoothing law, and nonlinear compensation.