Adaptive fuzzy terminal sliding mode control for the free-floating space manipulator with free-swinging joint failure

Space manipulator with free-swinging joint failure simultaneously contains kinematic and dynamic coupling relationships, so it belongs to a new underactuated system. To allow the manipulator to carry on tasks, an effective robust underactuated control method for the space manipulator with free-swinging joint failure is studied in this paper. Considering the effect of model uncertainty and joint torque disturbance, a robust underactuated control system based on the Terminal Sliding Mode Controller (TSMC) is designed, but two drawbacks are discussed: (A) Robustness depraves with eliminating chattering. (B) Control parameters are difficult to be determined under unknown uncertainty and disturbance. To improve the TSMC, the adaptive fuzzy controller is introduced to estimate the real effect of unknown uncertainty and disturbance according to deviations of sliding mode and its reaching law. The estimated result is directly compensated into active joints torque. In simulation, the space manipulator with free-swinging joint executes tasks based on the TSMC and the Adaptive Fuzzy Terminal Sliding Mode Controller (AFTSMC) respectively. Same tasks can be finished with smaller joints torque and stronger robustness based on the AFTSMC. Therefore, AFTSMC can serve as an effective robust control method for the space manipulator with free-swinging joint failure under unknown model uncertainty and torque disturbance.     

空间站柔性机械臂辅助舱段对接动力学分析

为验证空间站柔性机械臂系统在有初始位置、姿态误差的情况下能否成功完成辅助舱段对接任务,文章建立了空间站柔性机械臂辅助舱段对接动力学模型,模型考虑了对接机构的接触碰撞,依据关节精细动力学模型、力矩控制方法和阻抗控制程序进行了空间柔性机械臂辅助舱段对接过程仿真。仿真结果表明,当关节输出端位置测量精度为17位时,依靠阻抗控制的方法,空间柔性机械臂在主动舱存在最大位置误差150mm,最大姿态误差2.5°的情况下仍能完成对接;对接成功后,空间柔性机械臂系统控制力迅速下降,仍然能较好地保持构型,不会影响对接舱段的安全。     

一种柔性空间机械臂的刚体运动和柔性振动复合控制方法

针对柔性空间机械臂的刚体运动控制和柔性体振动抑制问题,给出了一种反馈和前馈复合控制方法.对于一个柔性双连杆机械臂,首先设计反馈线性化控制器,消除非线性影响,实现大范围的刚体运动控制.其次基于闭环回路响应的振动特性,设计输入成型前馈控制器,预成型控制命令,抑制对结构振动影响显著的某些模态响应.最后仿真结果证实了给出的反馈线性化和输入成型复合控制方法,可以实现精确的位置控制,同时机械臂的残余振动得到了有效的抑制.     

自由漂浮机械臂抓取翻滚目标的自适应控制策略

提出了一种自由漂浮机械臂抓取翻滚目标的自适应控制策略.抓取翻滚目标要求自由漂浮机械臂具有很强的轨迹跟踪能力,但是自由漂浮机械臂本身以及目标所存在的运动学和动力学参数不确定性使基于模型的控制器性能急剧下降,甚至变得不稳定.通过对参数的自适应逐步改善基于模型的控制器的性能,并且提出了一种新的自由漂浮机械臂关节空间自适应控制器.最后通过数值仿真对所提出的自适应控制策略进行了验证.     

利用二次优化实现柔性冗余度机器人关节力矩最小化研究

对基于振动抑制的柔性冗余度机器人关节力矩的最小化进行了研究。通过分析影响柔性机器人弹性动力响应的因素,得出了在结构参数不变的情况下可以通过适当调整关节运动参数来提高机器人动态性能的结论。在此基础上,通过对柔性冗余度机器人的关节运动进行研究,提出了通过自运动的适当选取从而抑制机器人柔性振动的方法。通过对满足抑振要求的自运动的选取进行分析,指出柔性冗余度机器人在实现振动抑制的基础上还具有二次优化的能力,并且利用这种二次优化的能力得出了基于振动抑制的最小化关节力矩的方法。数值仿真验证了该方法的有效性。     

参数不确定空间机械臂关节轨迹跟踪的增广自适应控制方案

讨论了载体位置与姿态均不受控制的漂浮基两杆空间机械臂系统的控制问题.系统动力学分析的结果表明,结合系统动量及动量矩守恒关系得到的系统动力学方程将为系统惯性参数的非线性函数.证明了借助于增广变量法,即通过适当扩展系统的控制输入与输出可以得到一组控制方程,它们可以表示为一组适当选择的惯性参数的线性函数.以此为基础,针对机械臂末端载荷参数未知的情况,设计了关节空间轨迹跟踪的增广自适应控制方案.此控制方案的显著优点在于不需要测量漂浮基的位置及移动的速度、加速度.仿真运算证实了方法的有效性.      

Vibration Reduction of Open-chain Flexible Manipulators by Optimizing Independent Motions of Branch Links

In order to suppress vibration in flexible manipulators, a new type of manipulator mechanism with controllable local degrees of freedom is proposed. This mechanism consists of a main chain and some branch links. The main chain is of a flexible open-chain configuration with an end-effector installed at its tip, and the rigid branch links are able to perform active movements. It is proved by kinematics and dynamic analysis that, the branch links bear no direct kinematic relation to the main chain, but their independent motions can strongly affect the dynamic behavior and performance of the flexible manipulator. Then comes a new idea of suppressing vibration, in which independent motions of the branch links are used to suppress the undesired vibration of the flexible main chain through dynamic coupling. On this basis, an optimal method for reducing vibration of flexible manipulators is proposed. Finally, the effectiveness of this method is verified by numerical simulations.     

空间机械臂的刚-柔耦合动力学研究

本文对作大范围运动的空间机械臂的刚-柔耦合动力学特性进行了研究，从连续介质力学理论出发，在变形位移中计及了耦合变形量，用Jourdain速度变分原理导出了作大范围运动的空间机械臂的动力学方程，分别用耦合模型和不计耦合变形量的零次近似模型计算了机械臂端点的变形位移，揭示了两种模型的动力学性质的差异。为了确定零次近似模型的适用范围，引入相关系数，仿真计算结果表明，零次近似模型仅适用于相关系灵敏的最大值小于0.1的情况。     

基于一类含极少运动副四支链两转一移三自由度并联机构的五轴混联机器人

首先提出了一类含较少运动副四支链两转一移三自由度（2R1T）并联机构（PMs）2RPU-UPR-RPR和2UPR-RPU-RPR，然后提出了极限约束力螺旋系的概念，分析四支链2R1T并联机构末端的极限约束力螺旋系，对所提出的四支链2R1T并联机构是否同类机构中含运动副最少进行了论证。基于提出的四支链并联机构构造了一种五自由度混联机器人机构，建立了2-RPU-UPR-RPR并联机构的位置反解模型，并将其等效成一个三自由度串联机构RPR，进而对整个混联机器人机构进行了位置正反解分析，建立得到了混联机器人机构位置反解的显式解析表达式，并用加工球面轨迹的算例对所建运动学模型的正确性进行验证。提出的五自由度混联机器人含有极少的运动副，且所有转动自由度均具有连续转轴，能够得到解析的位置模型表达式，很容易实现轨迹规划与运动控制，具有良好的应用前景。     

First millimetric detections of AE Aquarii

We report the first millimetric detections of the magnetic cataclysmic variable AE Aquarii, accompanied by contemporaneous microwave observations. These data show that the time-averaged spectrum is well fit by a power-law which extends to mm wavelengths. We suggest that the spectrum is consistent with that expected from a superposition of flare-like events.