Colocated and noncolocated control design via mu-synthesis for flexible manipulators Conference Paper

abstract

• Sensor and actuator locations play an important role in the control of flexible manipulators. Colocated and noncolocated controllers are designed using -synthesis technique for an experimental flexible arm testbed at the University of Minnesota. A nonlinear, dynamic model of the flexible arm is linearized to generate the control design model. Discrepancies between a linear model and the original dynamical model are modeled as uncertainties and included in the -framework. It is observed, theoretically and experimentally, that the addition of tip sensing dramatically improves the tip tracking performance and robustness. The robustness of the noncolocated controllers to variations in the control design model is verified theoretically and experimentally.

name of conference

• Proceedings of 1995 American Control Conference - ACC'95

authors

• Karkoub, Mansour

published proceedings

• PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1995 AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-6

author list (cited authors)

• KARKOUB, M., BALAS, G. J., & TAMMA, K.

citation count

• 4

complete list of authors

• KARKOUB, M||BALAS, GJ||TAMMA, K

publication date

• January 1995

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• Proceedings of the ... American Control Conference. American Control Conference  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/acc.1995.532218

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

• 0-7803-2446-3

start page

• 3321

end page

• 3325

volume

• 5

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/acc.1995.532218