DYNAMIC ANALYSIS AND CONTROL OF CABLE DRIVEN ROBOTS WITH ELASTIC CABLES

In this paper modeling and control of cable driven redundant parallel manipulators with flexible cables, are studied in detail. Based on new results, in fully constrained cable robots, cables can be modeled as axial linear springs. Considering this assumption the system dynamics formulation is developed using Lagrange approach. Since in this class of robots, all the cables should remain in tension for the whole workspace, the notion of internal forces are introduced and incorporated in the proposed control algorithm. The control algorithm is developed in cable coordinates in which the internal forces play an important role. Finally, asymptotic stability of the closed loop system is analyzed through Lyapunov theorem, and the performance of the proposed algorithm is studied by simulations.

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