Control of Adaptive Switching in the Sensing-Executing Mode Used to Mitigate Collision in Robot Force Control

Mitigating collision is a fundamental issue in contact problems, and is required to ensure the safety of a robotic cell. Research into the contact problem between robots and their environment is divided into two parts: one uses the environmental contact model and parameter estimation, the other uses the robot force control method. There are two main problems with this research method. One is that the two research levels are not effectively combined to form a complete solution for force control in practice. The other problem is that research on excessive contact force in the collision phase has not been studied in depth for force control. In this paper, a sensing-executing bionic system is proposed that combines environmental detection and robotic force control based on the way an ant functions. The bionic system clearly explains the process from environment detection to robot control, which can provide guidance when designing a new robot control system. An adaptive switching control algorithm is proposed to mitigate the collision force in the collision phase. From the simulation results, the collision force is significantly reduced due to the implementation of adaptive switching control. Finally, a new self-sensing device is designed which can be integrated into the robot control device. However, as there are no additional sensors or computational complexity in the system, the effectiveness of the circuit and superiority of the adaptive parameter update must be verified by experimentation.