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A Novel Control Strategy for Cable-Driven Parallel Robots with Unknown Jacobians

  • Hao Xiong
  • , Lin Zhang
  • , Xiumin Diao*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Purdue University

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Abstract

Cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) have been studied by many researchers in the past decades. Due to the inconsistency among setups of a CDPR in some applications, such as rehabilitation, the Jacobian of the CDPR may not be known for a setup. In order to control a CDPR with unknown Jacobian, a novel control strategy named the PID-FNN control strategy is proposed in this paper. The control strategy consists of a PID controller and a feedforward neural network (FNN). The FNN takes over the role of the Jacobian by mapping a wrench applied on the end-effector of the CDPR at a pose in the task space to a set of cable tensions in the joint space. In this way, the CDPR is controlled by cable tensions computed by solving the inverse dynamics problem using such a mapping, rather than the Jacobian. Simulation results show that the PID-FNN control strategy works as expected in controlling an example CDPR with four cables, three degrees of freedom, and unknown Jacobian.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, ARSO 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages79-83
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781728131764
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, ARSO 2019 - Beijing, China
Duration: 31 Oct 20192 Nov 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, ARSO
Volume2019-October
ISSN (Print)2162-7568
ISSN (Electronic)2162-7576

Conference

Conference15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, ARSO 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period31/10/192/11/19

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