Controle adaptativo aplicado em dois elos de um robô manipulador eletromecânico de cinco graus de liberdade

Abstract

This research aims at developing adaptive decentralized and centralized controllers for two links of an electromechanical manipulator robot of five degrees of freedom (5 DOF). The manipulator robot is consisted of five rotational joints, four links and a claw. Five DC motors are used to drive the robot and the motion transmission of the motors for the joints is achieved by gear trains. The measurements of the angular positions of the joints are made by potentiometers. Models of the manipulator robots, which are coupled and nonlinear, are obtained by using Newton- Euler and Lagrange equations. In this research, the models of the links of the manipulator robot are obtained in real time for each sampling period. The parameters of the links, to be controlled, are identified by recursive least squares (RLS) method resulted from imposed excitation to the motors which activate the links and the responses obtained by means of the joints. These parameters are used in the designs of adaptive controllers for the positions control of the link joints in question. Experimental results are presented, as well as evaluation of the achieved performance by the controlled links of the robot.