Local joint control in cooperating manipulator systems - force distribution and global stability

9 March 1993

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Robotica

Vol. 11 (2) , 111-118
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0263574700019214

Abstract

SUMMARY: Almost all industrial robot applications in use today are controlled using a control law that is simple and computationally efficient, local joint error feedback. When two or more open chain manipulators cooperate to manipulate the same object - such as in mechanical grippers, walking machines, and cooperating manipulator systems - closed kinematic chain, redundantly actuated mechanisms are formed. Control approaches for this type of system focus on the more computationally intensive computed torque or inverse plant control laws, due to the concern over instability caused by the unspecified distribution of control forces in the redundant actuator space, and due to the constrained motion caused by the closed kinematic chains.

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