Design procedures based on exact eigenstructure assignment are not sui
table because of very high computational requirements. A computation-e
ffective control design procedure for eigenstructure assignment using
aggregation is presented. Dominant eigenvalues are placed at specified
locations in the complex plane and the non-dominant eigenvalues are p
laced in a specified disk. The proposed design procedure is applied to
the trajectory tracking problem of a robot manipulator. An error-patt
ern based payload estimation and compensation scheme is also proposed
to improve performance robustness.