Adaptive robust controller design for multi-link flexible robots

Energy-based robust control strategy was proposed in [12] to improve the co ntrol performance of the traditional joint PD control by introducing additi onal control efforts through the evaluation of vibration related variables. Although the energy-based robust controller always guarantees closed-loop stability, it is not easy to find suitable gains of the terms for a satisfa ctory control performance. In this paper, adaptive energy-based robust cont rol is presented for both closed-loop stability and automatic tuning of the gains of the additional control terms for desired performance, Simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the presented approach. ( C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.