Controle adaptativo aplicado em um robô manipulador de dois graus de liberdade planar

Abstract

The objective of this thesis was to model and control in real time a planar manipulator robot with two degrees of freedom (2-DOF), comprising a rotational and a prismatic link. The rotational link is an aluminum U-channel activated by a motor-reducer DC. The prismatic link comprises a double-acting pneumatic cylinder and a pass-through rod fixed inside the U-channel and activated by a 5-way electropneumatic proportional valve with three positions. A 10 turn potentiometer senses the angular position of the rotational link, and a potentiometric ruler senses its linear position of the prismatic link. The mathematical model that represents the manipulator robot, whose parameters are estimated in real time by the recursive least squares (RLS) method, is obtained as a function of the inputs fed into the manipulator and its measured outputs, considering the coupling between the links, based on a structure predefined for this purpose. After modeling the system, self-adjustable adaptive controls of generalized minimum variance (GMV) are designed and implemented, which control the position of the manipulator robot according to trajectories specified for the two links. Lastly, the estimated and experimental responses of the system are presented and compared, considering its links operating in uncoupled and coupled mode under the action of the designed controls.