Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2016, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (6): 789-798.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2016.06.014

• Control and System • Previous Articles    

Robust Stabilization Control of Underactuated PAA Robot Based on Torque Transformation

PAN Chang-zhong, ZHOU Lan, ZHOU Shao-wu, XIAO Xiao-shi   

  1. School of Information and Electrical Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, Hunan Province, China
  • Received:2016-03-21 Revised:2016-07-30 Online:2016-11-30 Published:2016-11-30

Abstract:

Robust stabilization control based on torque transform is proposed for an underactuated three-link manipulator, named a passive-active-active (PAA) robot. It is equipped with only two actuators on the second and third joints. A torque transform,as a function of control input of the second joint and state of the robot,is used for the control input of the third joint. The robot dynamics is transformed to a simpler form,where the influence of control input of the third joint is explicitly eliminated. An energy-based swingup control law is then designed. In the balancing area,an uncertain model is obtained by treating velocities of the first and second links around the unstable equilibrium as uncertainties. A robust stabilizing state feedback control law is derived to reach a large balancing region based on a technique of linear matrix inequality (LMI). Simulation results show that the proposed approach has advantages of short settling time and small control torques.

Key words: swing-up control, linear matrix inequality (LMI), underactuated manipulator, robust control

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