Adaptive Stable Control of Manipulators with Improved Adaptation Transients by Using On-line Supervision of the Free-Parameters of the Adaptation Algorithm and Sampling Rate

Article type: Research Article

Authors: de la Sen, Manuel | Almansa, Ana

Affiliations: Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo de Procesos, Dpto. de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad del País Vasco, Leioa (Bizkaia), Aptdo, 644 de Bilbao, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: An adaptive control scheme for mechanical manipulators is proposed. The control loop essentially consists of a network for learning the robot's inverse dynamics and on-line generating the control signal. Some simulation results are provided to evaluate the design. A supervisor is used to improve the performances of the system during the adaptation transients. The supervisor exerts two supervisory actions. The first one consists basically of updating the free-design adaptive controller parameters so that the value of a quadratic loss function is maintained sufficiently small. Such a function involves past tracking errors and their predictions both on appropriate time horizons of low performances during the adaptation transients. The supervisor exerts two supervisory actions. The second supervisory action consists basically of a on-line adjustment of the sampling period within an interval centered in a nominal value of the sampling period. The sampling period is selected so that the transient of the tracking error is improved according to the simple intuitive rule of using a sampling rate faster as the tracking error changes faster.

Keywords: adaptive control, adaptation transients, supervised adaptive control

DOI: 10.3233/INF-2002-13307

Journal: Informatica, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 345-368, 2002