A neural network controller for flexible-link robots

Yesildirek A., Vandegrift M., Lewis F.

JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & ROBOTIC SYSTEMS, vol.17, no.4, pp.327-349, 1996 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 17 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 1996
  • Doi Number: 10.1007/bf00571697
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & ROBOTIC SYSTEMS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.327-349
  • Yıldız Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

The object in this paper is to achieve tracking control of a partially unknown flexible-link robot arm. It is shown how to stabilize the internal dynamics by selecting a physically meaningful modified performance output for tracking; this output is the slow portion of the link-tip motions. That is, the tracking requirement is relaxed so that the internal dynamics are controllable through a boundary layer correction. The controller is composed of singular-perturbation based fast control and an outer-loop slow control. The slow subsystem is controlled by a neural network (NN) for feedback linearization, plus a PD outer-loop for tracking, and a robustifying term to assure the closed-loop stability. No off-line learning or training is needed for the NN. Tracking and stability are proven using Lyapunov techniques that yield a novel modified NN weight tuning algorithm.