Optimal Robust Control for Rigid Serial Manipulators: A Fuzzy Approach

We first investigate the fundamental properties of rigid serial manipulators as related to the control design. Then, a new optimal robust control is proposed for serial-link mechanical manipulators with fuzzy uncertainty. Fuzzy set theory is used to describe the uncertainty. The desirable system performance is deterministic (assuring the bottom line) and also fuzzy (enhancing the cost consideration). The proposed control is deterministic and is not the usual if-then rules-based control. The resulting controlled system is uniformly bounded and uniformly ultimately bounded proved via the Lyapunov minimax approach. A performance index (the combined cost, which includes average fuzzy system performance and control effort) is proposed based on the fuzzy information. The optimal design problem associated with the control can then be solved by minimizing the performance index. The resulting control design is systematic and is able to guarantee the deterministic performance as well as minimizing the cost. In the end, a cylindrical robot manipulator is chosen for demonstration.

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