Adaptive robust controller design for multi-link flexible robots

Abstract Energy-based robust control strategy was proposed in [12] to improve the control performance of the traditional joint PD control by introducing additional control efforts through the evaluation of vibration related variables. Although the energy-based robust controller always guarantees closed-loop stability, it is not easy to find suitable gains of the terms for a satisfactory control performance. In this paper, adaptive energy-based robust control is presented for both closed-loop stability and automatic tuning of the gains of the additional control terms for desired performance. Simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the presented approach.

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