A TIME-DOMAIN INVERSE DYNAMIC TRACKING CONTROL OF A SINGLE-LINK FLEXIBLE MANIPULATOR

A manipulator system with a large workspace volume and high payload ca pacity has greater link flexibility than do typical industrial robots and teleoperators. If link flexibility is significant, position contro l of the manipulator's end-effector exhibits nonminimum-phase, noncoll ocated, and flexible-structure system control problems. This paper add resses inverse dynamic trajectory planning issues of a single-link fle xible manipulator. The inverse dynamic equation of a single-link flexi ble manipulator was solved in the time-domain. By dividing the inverse system equation into its causal part and anticausal part, the in vers e dynamic method calculates the feed-forward torque and the trajectori es of all state variables that do not excite structural vibrations for a given end-point trajectory. Through simulation and experiment with a single-link manipulator, the effectiveness of the inverse dynamic me thod in producing fast and vibration-free motion has been demonstrated .