Output Control of a Class of Hyper-redundant Robots

  • Mircea Ivanescu
  • Mircea Nitulescu
  • Nguyen Van Dong Hai
  • Mihaela Florescu
Conference paper
Part of the Mechanisms and Machine Science book series (Mechan. Machine Science, volume 49)

Abstract

The paper studies the control problem of a class of hyper-redundant robots with uncertain components by using the output control. To avoid the complexity of distributed controllers, in this paper is proposed a lumped output controller. A weighted technique is used to generate a boundary output. A PD controller is proposed and an algorithm for determining the controller gains is discussed. Lyapunov techniques are used to prove the asymptotically stability of the control system. Numerical simulations and prove the efficiency of the method.

Keywords

Hyper-redundant robot Control problem Output controller Lyapunov technique 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Mircea Ivanescu
    • 1
  • Mircea Nitulescu
    • 1
  • Nguyen Van Dong Hai
    • 1
  • Mihaela Florescu
    • 1
  1. 1.University of CraiovaCraiovaRomania

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