Control of the spatial motions of a gantry manipulator with elastic links

A mathematical dynamic model is proposed for a controlled gantry robot with elastic compliance and inertia distributed along a two-link arm. The model includes a nonlinear system of hybrid differential equations. Kinematic and dynamic control problems for the robot are formulated. The dynamic characteristics of the robot are analyzed in comparison with an equivalent model of a robot manipulator with rigid links based on the Lagrangian formalism __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 121–128, February 2006.     

The Effect of the Elastic Compliance of Actuator Components on the Dynamics of a Robot

Kinematic and dynamic control problems for a pedestal-mounted robot with a multilink arm are formulated. The robot is considered a system of perfectly rigid bodies controlled by a combined actuating system. The mathematical model of robot dynamics accounts for the elastic properties of actuator components based on the formalism of Lagrange equations of the second kind. The effect of the elastic compliance of the actuator components on the dynamics of manipulator links and actuator motors is discussed. A robot with a two-link arm is considered as an example     

Influence of elastic compliance of links on the dynamics and accuracy of a manipulating robot with rotational and translational joints

We pose problems of dynamic and kinematic control of spatial motions for multilink manipulating robot with elastic links and with rotational and translational joints. These problems are reduced to solving a system of ordinary and partial differential equations of hybrid type in the independent variables. We use a numerical integration algorithm for such systems which was developed earlier for manipulating robots with elastic links of anthropomorphic type. We discuss the difficulties arising in mathematical simulation of manipulating robots with simultaneously rotational and translational joints and with elastic links. To perform a comparative analysis and estimate the positional accuracy for the center of mass of the weight transported by the manipulator, we pose problems of dynamic and kinematic control of spatial motions of a manipulating robots with rigid links and with rotational and translational joints. The resolving equations obtained in this case are based on the Lagrange formalism of the second kind. By way of example, we present the solution of dynamic control problems for elastic and rigid two-link manipulators with one translational and two rotational joints.     

Influence of the flexibility of links on the dynamics of a multilink robot manipulator

The influence of the distributed flexibility of links on the dynamic behavior of a cantilevered multilink robot manipulator is studied. Two dynamic models of the robot are considered. In one of the models, the effectors are flexible. It is described by a hybrid system of ordinary and partial differential equations. In the other model, the manipulator links are perfectly rigid. It is based on the Lagrange formalism and described by a system of ordinary differential equations. To estimate the positioning accuracy, the results of modeling the manipulator in both cases are compared. A three-link manipulator is examined as an example __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 126–137, May 2007.     

机械臂臂杆刚度主动控制下的末端振动特性研究

机械臂在运动过程中会因臂杆柔性引发结构变形和弹性振动,降低机械臂末端的定位精度和运动稳定性,将结构振动控制方法用于机械臂的振动抑制研究具有重要意义. 基于变刚度主动控制的设计思想,提出了臂杆刚度主动控制方法,通过改变机械臂臂杆的轴向受力状况来主动改变机械臂的刚度. 采用变形耦合法描述了机械臂的非线性变形,进而结合假设模态法和拉格朗日方程建立了臂杆的变刚度动力学模型,并进行了数值仿真. 在此基础上,设计了基于臂杆刚度主动控制方法的单自由度实验台,分析了不同预紧力下机械臂末端的振动特性. 数值仿真和实验结果表明,随着预紧力的增加,机械臂末端的振动幅值得到衰减,验证了臂杆刚度主动控制方法的有效性. 通过采用响应面法建立了机械臂末端的振动响应与预紧力的关系,并基于内部映射牛顿法的子空间置信域法优化算法对预紧力进行了优化分析,得到了最优预紧力. 该研究可为机械臂的精细动力学建模和振动抑制提供一定的理论依据,并为研究经济型低刚度材料的刚化问题提供了方向,以利用廉价低刚度材料取代目前所应用的昂贵高刚度材料.      

RESEARCH ON VIBRATION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MANIPULATOR END UNDER ACTIVE CONTROL OF ARM STIFFNESS$^{\bf 1)}$

机械臂在运动过程中会因臂杆柔性引发结构变形和弹性振动,降低机械臂末端的定位精度和运动稳定性,将结构振动控制方法用于机械臂的振动抑制研究具有重要意义. 基于变刚度主动控制的设计思想,提出了臂杆刚度主动控制方法,通过改变机械臂臂杆的轴向受力状况来主动改变机械臂的刚度. 采用变形耦合法描述了机械臂的非线性变形,进而结合假设模态法和拉格朗日方程建立了臂杆的变刚度动力学模型,并进行了数值仿真. 在此基础上,设计了基于臂杆刚度主动控制方法的单自由度实验台,分析了不同预紧力下机械臂末端的振动特性. 数值仿真和实验结果表明,随着预紧力的增加,机械臂末端的振动幅值得到衰减,验证了臂杆刚度主动控制方法的有效性. 通过采用响应面法建立了机械臂末端的振动响应与预紧力的关系,并基于内部映射牛顿法的子空间置信域法优化算法对预紧力进行了优化分析,得到了最优预紧力. 该研究可为机械臂的精细动力学建模和振动抑制提供一定的理论依据,并为研究经济型低刚度材料的刚化问题提供了方向,以利用廉价低刚度材料取代目前所应用的昂贵高刚度材料.     

Dynamic modeling and wind vibration control of the feed support system in FAST

The Feed Support System (FSS) addressed here is the receiver carrier of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in China. The FSS is a complex hybrid manipulator, which consists of a cable-driven Stewart manipulator, an A–B rotator and a rigid Stewart manipulator. The cable-driven Stewart manipulator, which is a long-span flexible cable structure, is sensitive to the wind disturbance and induces the FSS vibration. The rigid Stewart manipulator is designed to suppress the vibration and improve the terminal accuracy of the FSS. In the paper, the elastic dynamic model of the cable-driven Stewart manipulator is deduced by simplifying the flexible cable as the spring damping model, while the rigid-body dynamic model of the A–B rotator and the rigid Stewart manipulator is obtained in detail, using the Newton–Euler method. The internal coupling forces of the FSS are figured out. The wind disturbance model is established according to the Davenport spectrum. By adopting the kinematic and dynamic parameters of the FAST prototype, the simulation model of the FSS is completed. Kinematic and dynamic vibration control strategies are evaluated with simulations. Results show that the dynamic vibration suppression strategy well satisfies the FSS terminal accuracy requirement, keeps the rigid Stewart manipulator working with reasonable driving forces, and should be adopted in the control system of the FAST prototype.     

Errata: Analytical Treatment of Some Extended Problems in Structural Optimization

ABSTRACT

The recursive Newton-Euler dynamic formulation is used to derive the equations of motion of a manipulator with harmonic drives. The derivation is general, in that the harmonic drive is viewed as a separate body that forms a kinematically closed chain with two contiguous links, leading to a comprehensive dynamic model. The harmonic drive is modeled as a flexible and rigid gear with a high gear reduction ratio. Under different modeling assumptions, the effects of gear flexibility and dynamic coupling are examined using a seven-degree-of-freedom manipulator.     

多尺度法在时滞弹性关节机械臂非线性振动问题中的应用

针对非线性弹性关节机械臂,研究传动过程中的时滞效应对机械臂系统周期振动的影响．本文改进了具有弹性关节的非线性机械臂动力学模型,引入时滞参数,应用多尺度法,得到系统的近似解析解,考察了时滞对机械臂系统周期运动的影响规律．数值软件计算结果表明解析解与数值解具有较好的吻合度．从而验证了本文多尺度方法的有效性和正确性．     

Dynamics of flexible multibody systems with tree topologies

The dynamic equations of flexible multibody systems with tree topological configuration are derived by using the Jourdain's principle. The independent joint coordinates are introduced to describe the large displacements of the bodies, and the modal coordinates are used to describe small deformations of flexible bodies based on the consistent mass finite element method and normal vibration mode analysis. The minimum differential equations are developed, which are compatible with the equations of multi-rigid body systems or structural dynamics. The stiff problem in the numerical integration is thus alleviated effectively. The method used in this paper can be extended to deal with systems with other topological configurations. Finally, the validity and feasibility of the presented mathematical model are demonstrated by a numerical example of a manipulator with two elastic links. The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China     

漂浮基柔性两杆空间机械臂的关节运动鲁棒控制与柔性振动最优控制Robust joint motion control and vibration optimal control for a free-floating two-flexible-link space manipulator

讨论了载体位置、姿态均不受控情况下,具有有界干扰及有界未知参数的漂浮基柔性两杆空间机械臂的具有鲁棒性的关节运动控制与柔性振动最优控制算法设计问题。首先选择合理的联体坐标系,利用拉格朗日方程并结合动量守恒原理得到漂浮基柔性两杆空间机械臂系统的动力学方程。通过合理选择联体坐标系与利用奇异摄动理论,实现了两个柔性杆柔性振动之间、关节运动与两柔性杆柔性振动的解耦,得到了柔性两杆空间机械臂的慢变子系统与柔性臂快变子系统。针对两个子系统设计相应的控制规律,即增广鲁棒慢变子系统控制律与柔性臂快变子系统最优控制律,这两个相应的子系统控制规律综合到一起构成飘浮基柔性两杆空间机械臂总的关节运动与臂柔性振动控制的组合控制律。系统的数值仿真证实了方法的有效性。该控制方案不需要直接测量漂浮基的位置、移动速度和移动加速度。     

Control and Parameter Optimization of Flexible Robots*

A hierarchical control concept for flexible robot manipulators is presented. The equations of motion are derived using the multibody system method, incorporating flexible links equipped with surface bonded actuating and sensing devices. Exploiting the structure of the dynamic model, the control concept allows combination of any joint level control for the gross motion of the manipulator with decentralized linear control of the elastic deformation of each flexible link. Therefore, the approach is capable of solving both the problem of fast and precise point-to-point motion, with acceptable vibration characteristics, and the problem of accurate trajectory tracking of the end-effector. Control parameters are found through parameter optimization. In order to verify the proposed control strategy, a SCARA robot with one flexible link is considered.     

A simple and quick control strategy for a class of first-order nonholonomic manipulator

This paper presents a simple and quick control strategy for a class of first-order nonholonomic manipulator: planar n-link manipulator with a passive first joint (no gravity). The control target is driving its endpoint from any initial position to any target position. First, we reduce the planar n-link manipulator to a planar three-link one by maintaining the states (angles and angular velocities) of n-3 active links in the initial value all the time. That is, we only adjust the states of the remaining two active links in the whole control process, and these two adjusted active links are chosen to guarantee that the target position is in the reachable region of the planar n-link manipulator by using the enumeration method. Then, we divide the whole control process into two stages for the reduced planar three-link manipulator. In each stage, the manipulator becomes a planar two-link one by maintaining the states of one adjusted active link to be the constant value. The state constraint existing between the passive first link and the adjusted active link is obtained by using the integral characteristics of a planar two-link manipulator. Meantime, the geometric constraint between the position of the endpoint and angles of all joints is obtained based on the homogeneous coordinate transformation method. According to the above two kinds of constraint, the target angles of the two adjusted active links are calculated by employing the particle swarm optimization algorithm. When the two adjusted active links are controlled to their target angles in turn, the control target of the planar n-link manipulator is completed. Finally, simulation results demonstrate that the proposed control strategy is valid and rapid.     

Recursive Lagrangian dynamic modeling and simulation of multi-link spatial flexible manipulator arms

The dynamics for multi-link spatial flexible manipulator arms consisting of n links and n rotary joints is investigated. Kinematics of both rotary-joint motion and link deformation is described by 4 - 4 homogenous transformation matrices, and the Lagrangian equations are used to derive the governing equations of motion of the system. In the modeling the recursive strategy for kinematics is adopted to improve the computational efficiency. Both the bending and torsional flexibility of the link are taken into account. Based on the present method a general-purpose software package for dynamic simulation is developed. Dynamic simulation of a spatial flexible manipulator arm is given as an example to validate the algorithm.     

带有末端集中质量的双连杆柔性机械臂主动控制

对带有末端集中质量的双连杆柔性机械臂的主动控制进行了研究,给出系统的动力学方程,采用非线性解耦反馈控制方法分别得出系统大范围运动方程和柔性臂的动力学方程,采用机械臂逆动力学方法和LQR方法分别设计大范围运动控制律和压电作动器控制律.仿真结果显示,本文控制方法能够有效地进行机械臂的轨迹跟踪,柔性臂的弹性振动可以得到有效抑制.     

Dynamical couplings analysis of rigid manipulators

A method for investigation of the dynamical couplings between the manipulator links is presented in this paper. The method is based on quasi velocities introduced originally by Hurtado (2004) and on a diagonalized Poincaré form of the Hamel representation described by Sovinsky et al. (2005). Some observations and a heuristic algorithm are proposed to determine the dynamical couplings between the rigid manipulator links. The presented strategy can be used in the design phase of manipulators and it can be realized via a simulation test. It is validated here on a 3 d.o.f. spatial manipulator.     

TRAJECTORY TRACKING CONTROL AND VIBRATION SUPPRESSION OF SPACE-BASED ROBOT WITH ELASTIC FOUNDATION

讨论了基座存在弹性情况下,载体位置无控、姿态受控的漂浮基空间机械臂惯性空间轨迹跟踪控制及基座弹性振动主动抑制问题。由系统位置几何关系及动量守恒关系,建立了系统运动Jacobi 关系;之后利用拉格朗日方法并结合系统动量守恒关系建立了系统动力学方程。基于奇异摄动理论的两种时间尺度假设,将该方程分解为描写系统刚性运动的慢变子系统与描写系统弹性振动的快变子系统。对慢变子系统设计了基于计算力矩法的轨迹跟踪控制器;对于快变子系统则设计了线性二次最优控制方案。数值仿真证实了提出的控制方法的有效性。     

锻压操作机夹持长棒料随动过程动态受力分析

研究了锻压操作机夹持长棒料锻件锻压随动过程中夹钳的受力状态。利用拉格朗日方程及有限元方法建立了包含操作机及其锻件的总体动力学方程。操作机系统建立为端部悬挂质量弹簧的Euler-Bernoulli梁模型,随动过程中因为梁上节点位移激励引起操作机系统的瞬态振动。计算结果与LS-DYNA显式有限元模型结果进行了比对,吻合良好。结果表明,对于长棒料锻件,液压机锻压的位置对操作机的动态受力有着十分显著的影响。     

Nonlinear adaptive task space control for a 2-DOF redundantly actuated parallel manipulator

A nonlinear adaptive (NA) controller in the task space is developed for the trajectory tracking of a 2-DOF redundantly actuated parallel manipulator. The dynamic model with nonlinear friction is established in the task space for the parallel manipulator, and the linear parameterization expression of the dynamic model is formulated. Based on the dynamic model, a new control law including adaptive dynamics compensation, adaptive friction compensation and error elimination items is designed. After defining a quadratic performance index, the parameter update law is derived with the gradient descent algorithm. The stability of the parallel manipulator system is proved by the Lyapunov theorem, and the convergence of the tracking error and the error rate is proved by the Barbalat’s lemma. The NA controller is implemented in the trajectory tracking experiments of an actual 2-DOF redundantly actuated parallel manipulator, and the experiment results are compared with the APD controller.