scholarly journals Motion Planning and Coordinated Control of Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems with Inertial Delay Control and Fuzzy Compensator

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3944
Author(s):  
Han Han ◽  
Yanhui Wei ◽  
Xiufen Ye ◽  
Wenzhi Liu

This paper presents new motion planning and robust coordinated control schemes for trajectory tracking of the underwater vehicle-manipulator system (UVMS) subjected to model uncertainties, time-varying external disturbances, payload and sensory noises. A redundancy resolution technique with a new secondary task and nonlinear function is proposed to generate trajectories for the vehicle and manipulator. In this way, the vehicle attitude and manipulator position are aligned in such a way that the interactive forces are reduced. To resist sensory measurement noises, an extended Kalman filter (EKF) is utilized to estimate the UVMS states. Using these estimates, a tracking controller based on feedback Linearization with both the joint-space and task-space tracking errors is proposed. Moreover, the inertial delay control (IDC) is incorporated in the proposed control scheme to estimate the lumped uncertainties and disturbances. In addition, a fuzzy compensator based on these estimates via IDC is introduced for reducing the undesired effects of perturbations. Trajectory tracking tasks on a five-degrees-of-freedom (5-DOF) underwater vehicle equipped with a 3-DOF manipulator are numerically simulated. The comparative results demonstrate the performance of the proposed controller in terms of tracking errors, energy consumption and robustness against uncertainties and disturbances.

Author(s):  
C-L Chen ◽  
C-J Lin

A redundant manipulator can achieve a principal task and additional tasks by utilizing the degrees of redundancy. In the present paper, the redundancy resolution problem is formulated as a local equality constrained optimization problem. A motion planning solution corresponding to a design objective is then obtained using a new approach, called the perturbation method. In contrast to conventional approaches, the inverse of the Jacobian matrix is not required in the method proposed. Tracking errors can be bounded by a permissible zone, which is a function of normal tracking error and a safety factor. Positioning of the end effector within the permissible zone is satisfactory for the completion of any given step and signals the beginning of the next step. The position angle change of each joint is also bounded in each sampling interval as a function of robot maximum speed. Computer simulations written in the parallel processing language occam and computed on a transputer-based computation network are used to study the behaviour of the method proposed. Results validate the approach.


Author(s):  
John T. Agee ◽  
Zafer Bingul ◽  
Selcuk Kizir

The trajectory tracking in the flexible-joint manipulator (FJM) system becomes complicated since the flexibility of the joint of the FJM superimposes vibrations and nonminimum phase characteristics. In this paper, a distributed higher-order differential feedback controller (DHODFC) using the link and joint position measurement was developed to reduce joint vibration in step input response and to improve tracking behavior in reference trajectory tracking control. In contrast to the classical higher-order differential (HOD), the dynamics of the joint and link are considered separately in DHODFC. In order to validate the performance of the DHODFC, step input, trajectory tracking, and disturbance rejection experiments are conducted. In order to illustrate the differences between classical HOD and DHODFC, the performance of these controllers is compared based on tracking errors and energy of control signal in the tracking experiments and fundamental dynamic characteristics in the step response experiments. DHODFC produces better tracking errors with almost same control effort in the reference tracking experiments and a faster settling time, less or no overshoot, and higher robustness in the step input experiments. Dynamic behavior of DHODFC is examined in continuous and discontinues inputs. The experimental results showed that the DHODFC is successful in the elimination of the nonminimum phase dynamics, reducing overshoots in the tracking of such discontinuous input trajectories as step and square waveforms and the rapid damping of joint vibrations.


Author(s):  
Bo Su ◽  
Hongbin Wang ◽  
Ning Li

In this paper, an event-triggered integral sliding mode fixed-time control method for trajectory tracking problem of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with disturbance is investigated. Initially, the global fixed time stability is ensured with conventional periodic sampling method for reference trajectory tracking. By introducing fixed time integral sliding mode manifold, fixed time control strategy is expressed for the AUV, which can effectively eliminate the singularity. Correspondingly, in order to reduce the damage caused by chattering phenomenon, an adaptive fixed-time method is proposed based on the designed continuous integral terminal sliding mode (ITSM) to ensure that the trajectory tracking for AUV is achieved in fixed-time with external disturbance. In order to reduce resource consumption in the process of transmission network, the event-triggered sliding mode control strategy is designed which condition is triggered by an event. Also, Zeno behavior is avoided by proof of theoretical. It is shown that the upper bounds of settling time are only dependent on the parameters of controller. Theoretical analysis and simulation experiment results show that the presented methods can realize the control object.


Robotica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 1551-1570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossein Mirzaeinejad ◽  
Ali Mohammad Shafei

SUMMARYThis study deals with the problem of trajectory tracking of wheeled mobile robots (WMR's) under non-holonomic constraints and in the presence of model uncertainties. To solve this problem, the kinematic and dynamic models of a WMR are first derived by applying the recursive Gibbs–Appell method. Then, new kinematics- and dynamics-based multivariable controllers are analytically developed by using the predictive control approach. The control laws are optimally derived by minimizing a pointwise quadratic cost function for the predicted tracking errors of the WMR. The main feature of the obtained closed-form control laws is that online optimization is not needed for their implementation. The prediction time, as a free parameter in the control laws, makes it possible to achieve a compromise between tracking accuracy and implementable control inputs. Finally, the performance of the proposed controller is compared with that of a sliding mode controller, reported in the literature, through simulations of some trajectory tracking maneuvers.


Actuators ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 313
Author(s):  
Rui Zhang ◽  
Jun Peng ◽  
Bin Chen ◽  
Kai Gao ◽  
Yingze Yang ◽  
...  

Active braking control systems are vital for the safety of high-speed trains by leading the train operation at its maximum adhesion state. The train adhesion is a nonlinear function of the slip ratio and varies with the uncertain wheel-rail contact conditions. A nonlinear active braking control with rapid and accurate tracking performance is highly required for train braking systems. This paper proposes a novel prescribed performance active braking control with reference adaptation to obtain the maximum adhesion force. The developed feedback linearization controller employs a prescribed performance function that specifies the convergence rate, steady-state error, and maximum overshoot to ensure the transient and steady-state control performance. Furthermore, in the designed control approach, a continuous-time unscented Kalman filter is introduced to estimate the uncertainty of wheel-rail adhesion. The estimation is utilized to represent uncertainty and compensate for the prescribed performance control law. Finally, based on the estimated wheel-rail adhesion, an on-line optimal slip ratio generation algorithm is proposed for the adaptation of the reference wheel slip. The stability of the system is provided, and experiment results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.


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