A reference governor-based controller for a cable robot under input constraints

doi:10.1109/TCST.2004.841668

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A reference governor-based controller for a cable robot under input constraints

2005-07-01

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Oh, SR

Sunil K. Agrawal

DOI：10.1109/TCST.2004.841668

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Cable-suspended robots are structurally similar to parallel actuated robots but with the fundamental difference that cables can only pull the end-effector but not push it. From a scientific point of view, this feature makes feedback control of cable-suspended robots lot more challenging than their counterpart parallel actuated robots. In this brief, we look into the control design for a nonredundant cable-suspended robot under positive input constraints. The design is based on feedback linearization controllers augmented with a reference governor (RG). This RG operates in accordance with the receding horizon strategy, by generating admissible reference signals, that do not violate the input constraints. An important issue in implementing such an algorithm for nonlinear systems is to predict the system behavior in a computationally efficient way. We show that feedback linearization controllers with the RG can offer an efficient way to predict the system's future states, using the error dynamics of inner feedback loop. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is illustrated by numerical simulation and laboratory experiments on a 6-degree-of-freedom cable suspended robot.

Keywords:

cable suspended robot

feedback linearization

receding horizon

reference governor (RG)

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