Adaptive Position/Force Control of a Robotic Manipulator in Contact with a Flexible and Uncertain Environment

The present paper concerns the synthesis of robot movement control systems in the cases of disturbances of natural position constraints, which are the result of surface susceptibility and inaccuracies in its description. The study contains the synthesis of control laws, in which the knowledge of parameters of the susceptible environment is not required, and which guarantee stability of the system in the case of an inaccurately described contact surface. The novelty of the presented solution is based on introducing an additional module to the control law in directions normal to the interaction surface, which allows for a fluent change of control strategy in the case of occurrence of distortions in the surface. An additional module in the control law is perceived as a virtual viscotic resistance force and resilient environment acting upon the robot. This interpretation facilitates intuitive selection of amplifications and allows for foreseeing the behavior of the system when disturbances occur. Introducing reactions of virtual constraints provides automatic adjustment of the robot interaction force with the susceptible environment, minimizing the impact of geometric inaccuracy of the environment.

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