Robots that use cycloidal gears, belts, or long shafts for transmitting motion from the motors to the driven rigid links display visco-elastic phenomena that can be assumed to be concentrated at the joints. For the design of advanced, possibly nonlinear, trajectory tracking control laws that are able to fully counteract the vibrations due to joint elasticity, full state feedback is needed. However, no robot with elastic joints has sensors available for its whole state, i.e., for measuring positions and velocities of both motors and links. Several nonlinear observers have been proposed in the past, assuming different reduced sets of measurements. We introduce here a new observer which uses only motor position sensing, together with accelerometers suitably mounted on the links of the robot arm. Its main advantage is that the error dynamics on the estimated state is independent from the dynamic parameters of the robot links, and can be tuned with standard decentralized linear techniques (locally to each joint). We present an experimental validation of this observer for the three base joints of a KUKA KR15/2 industrial robot and illustrate the control use of the obtained results.

An acceleration-based state observer for robot manipulators with elastic joints / DE LUCA, Alessandro; D., Schroeder; M., Thuemmel. - (2007), pp. 3817-3823. (Intervento presentato al convegno IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation tenutosi a Rome, ITALY nel APR 10-14, 2007) [10.1109/robot.2007.364064].

An acceleration-based state observer for robot manipulators with elastic joints

DE LUCA, Alessandro;
2007

Abstract

Robots that use cycloidal gears, belts, or long shafts for transmitting motion from the motors to the driven rigid links display visco-elastic phenomena that can be assumed to be concentrated at the joints. For the design of advanced, possibly nonlinear, trajectory tracking control laws that are able to fully counteract the vibrations due to joint elasticity, full state feedback is needed. However, no robot with elastic joints has sensors available for its whole state, i.e., for measuring positions and velocities of both motors and links. Several nonlinear observers have been proposed in the past, assuming different reduced sets of measurements. We introduce here a new observer which uses only motor position sensing, together with accelerometers suitably mounted on the links of the robot arm. Its main advantage is that the error dynamics on the estimated state is independent from the dynamic parameters of the robot links, and can be tuned with standard decentralized linear techniques (locally to each joint). We present an experimental validation of this observer for the three base joints of a KUKA KR15/2 industrial robot and illustrate the control use of the obtained results.
2007
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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An acceleration-based state observer for robot manipulators with elastic joints / DE LUCA, Alessandro; D., Schroeder; M., Thuemmel. - (2007), pp. 3817-3823. (Intervento presentato al convegno IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation tenutosi a Rome, ITALY nel APR 10-14, 2007) [10.1109/robot.2007.364064].
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