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The increased complexity of the dynamics of robots considering joint elasticity makes conventional model-based control strategies complex and difficult to synthesize. In this paper, a model-free control using integrated PID-type learning and fuzzy control for flexible-joint manipulators is proposed. Optimal PID gains can be learned by a neural network learning algorithm and then a simple standard fuzzy control could be incorporated in the overall control strategy, if needed, for enhancing the system responses. A modified recursive least squares algorithm is suggested for faster learning of the connection weights representing the PID-like gains. Simulation results show that the suggested simple model-free approach can control a complex flexible-joint manipulator to meet stringent requirements for both transient and steady-state performances.
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Lin, LC., Lee, TE. Integrated PID-type Learning and Fuzzy Control for Flexible-joint Manipulators. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems 18, 47–66 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007942528058
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